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[Flying Fokker]

Grief…The number of planets is roughly a third of the number of stars.

More stars than grains of sand on Earth? You bet

Perhaps you’ve heard this before: There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand in all the beaches, desserts and sandboxes on Earth. There are a lot of sand grains on Earth. Sand c…

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[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Grief…The number of planets is roughly a third of the number of stars.

More stars than grains of sand on Earth? You bet

Perhaps you’ve heard this before: There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand in all the beaches, desserts and sandboxes on Earth. There are a lot of sand grains on Earth. Sand c…

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That seems counter-intuitive given gravity encourages matter to coalesce around stars and form planets. Our star has eight planets for example. So there must be an awful lot of stars with absolutely no planets orbiting them for some reason.