Re: How many stars in M87?

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1 total messages Started by Hartmut Frommert Thu, 03 Sep 1992 16:49

Author: Hartmut Frommert
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 16:49

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Rune.Johansen@nta.no (Rune Henning Johansen FBA) writes:

>In an article translated from English to Norwegian it was mentioned
>that Hubble took some pictures of the galaxy M87. According to the
>article this galaxy consists of two "billoner" stars. Since a
>Norwegian "billion" is thousand times greater than an English
>"billion" I wonder if there might be a translation error. So my
>question is simply: How many stars is there in M87?

Surely some few trillions (English). Can someone post a more acurate value ?
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