THE MOST BORING JOB IN THE UNIVERSE

A team of astronomers at the Australian National University Research School of Astronomers claim to have finished the most accurate calculation ever of the number of stars in the visible universe. Using some of the most powerful telescopes on Earth the team counted galaxies near the Milky Way, estimated the number of stars in each galaxy and extrapolated the number to cover the entire visible universe, approximately 250,000 galaxies worth. Team leader Simon Driver claims that his team counted 70 sextillion stars - or 70 thousand million million - more than every grain of sand on all the beaches and deserts on Earth. “This is not the total number of stars in the universe," Driver explained, “but it's the number within the range of our telescopes." (SpaceDaily.com)