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:There are "10 times as many stars as grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts," totaling "7 followed by 22 zeros or, more accurately, 70 sextillion.
 
:There are "10 times as many stars as grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts," totaling "7 followed by 22 zeros or, more accurately, 70 sextillion.
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But even that scientific estimate was way off.  On December 1, 2010, scientists admitted there are three times as many stars as estimated as recently as a year ago!<ref>http://www.americanscientist.org/science/content1/11342</ref>
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But even that scientific estimate was way off.  On December 1, 2010, scientists admitted:<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1201/Universe-might-hold-three-times-more-stars-than-previously-thought</ref>
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:"a cosmic embarrassment of riches – ''the universe appears to hold three times the number of stars many [[astronomer]]s might have estimated only a year ago''."
    
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