According to this page :
http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/4693.htm
The number of stars in our Galaxy is 1.15 Billion!
http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/4693.htm
The number of stars in our Galaxy is 1.15 Billion!
Galaxy has More Stars than in ED , so what now?
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the number of stars in the Elite: verse 400 billion!
Those are the mapped stars in our galaxy, we have not mapped even close to all of them
Many of them will forever be un"mappable" due to being obscured by spacedust and the galactic disk itself
verminstar
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Go out and explore every single one of them...then I'll believe you...even though both of us will be dust by the time yer even a fraction of the way through ^^
The galaxy is estimated to have 400 billion stars this is the number used in ED.
The GAIA survey mission collects data on 1 billion of the closest of these stars, and should give the most accurate measurements of distance and brightness yet. A catalogue of about 10.000 real stars appears in ED, the rest are procedural. GAIA should enable the number of real stars with accurate positions in the game to be increased.
The GAIA survey mission collects data on 1 billion of the closest of these stars, and should give the most accurate measurements of distance and brightness yet. A catalogue of about 10.000 real stars appears in ED, the rest are procedural. GAIA should enable the number of real stars with accurate positions in the game to be increased.
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I'm not great with numbers, but the last time I checked, I could have sworn that 400 Billion is bigger than 1.15 Billion.
Anyone else want to correct me on this?
Anyone else want to correct me on this?
verminstar
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Here's a thought. 400 billion stars does not equate 400 billion systems. Some systems have more than one star after all ^^
Not to mention stars that are seen, but no longer exist because they went nova long ago, but the light traveling from them is only reaching us now and at some point in the future we will see the light of the nova, and then the nothing after... and all those other interesting relativistic tricks space plays on us... so the actual right-now census data on the total star population of the galaxy is... irrelevant because we wont live long enough for it to matter.
No, he just didn't understand the number of stars in ED. As I recall at the time the game was being designed approximately 160k stars were plotted at roughly the correct astronomical positions. The rest is PG filler. If they were doing the game again today I guess they would have to hand-place 1.15 billion stars
Horses mouth: http://sci.esa.int/gaia/
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It's a language thing, in germany for example we call 1000 million a milliard, and 1000 milliards a billion (what you would call a trillion)
So depending on where he stems from, he probably meant what you would call 1.15 trillion in english.
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Why does everyone have different billions and trillions? It's annoying lol
1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 Trillion?
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It doesn't even matter, does it ?
Even if ED "only" had 40 million stars, it's a number far beyond comprehension. And we'd never ever visit all of them either.
After a certain size it becomes meaningless, no matter how many additional zeros are added.
The Americans wanted to call themselves 'Billionaires' so they rounded down the international number, of 1,000,000,000,000 to 1,000,000,000.
well i don't believe any of it cos when i look up i can only count about thirty or so
unless there's more where you live
unless there's more where you live
Doesn't count
Context of the thread is our galaxy (due to a misunderstanding of what the OP read) and Arry asked for a precise number (without saying of what) so it's implied he meant the galaxy as a whole, not what has been mapped.
That is still rounded down to the nearest million? Not very precise, is it?