How many stars are in the Milky Way?

Q: How many stars are in the Milky Way?

200 billion stars (200,000,000,000). Somewhere between 100 and 400 billion. Counting them at one per second would take 6,000 years. Source: NASA

200 billion

stars

200,000,000,000 exactly, give or take

Somewhere between 100 and 400 billion. Counting them at one per second would take 6,000 years.SOURCENASA

Scale check: 200 billion is roughly seconds in 3,000 years.

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