How many stars are known to exist?

About 3,000 stars are visible with the unaided eye on a clear night. A small telescope will increase this to around 100,000 stars. But this is just the beginning! The stars we can easily see are in our corner of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The entire Milky Way galaxy has many more stars than that.

And beyond the Milky Way are other galaxies. Around 100 billion such galaxies are known to exist, according to some scientists.

Yet all the stars in all the galaxies are only one page in God's catalogue of the heavens. New instruments continue to probe deeper into space, with no end in sight.

What an excellent way for the Creator's glory to show! Whatever the number of stars he has created, the Creator calls all of them by name, and he keeps count of them (Psalm 147:4; Isaiah 40:26).

Source: Adapted with changes from Astronomy and the Bible: Questions and Answers by physicist Dr. Donald B. DeYoung , 2nd Ed. (2000).