star, n.Trivia

The largest known diamond in the universe is a star named Lucy (after the song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’) that is ten trillion, billion karats

The sun is a medium-sized star --- there are stars 100 times bigger and also one-tenth the size of our sun

Galaxies are numerous --- there are perhaps as many galaxies in the Universe as there are stars in the Milky Way (~100 billion)

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way at 3 trillion (with a mere 100-400 billion stars in the galaxy)

There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand in all the deserts and beaches in the world

The sun is a medium-sized star among the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy

There are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe

There is an uncountable number of stars in the known universe

There are ten times more stars in the night sky than there are grains of sand in the world's deserts and beaches.

The Milky Way is made up of 200 hundred billion (200,000,000,000) stars

There is a star that is a diamond of ten billion trillion trillion carats.