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The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier

Posted by samzenpus on from the twinkle-twinkle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronomers have surveyed eight elliptical galaxies, and found that we've vastly underestimated the number of dim red dwarf stars in these giant galaxies. When they used the new number of red dwarfs in their calculations, they tripled the total number of known stars in the universe."

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  1. My god . . . by Mitchell314 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's full of three times the stars.

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  2. Re:first? or third? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're ignoring something important. The laws of conservation of matter and energy.

    Important to you, maybe...

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