How often do the scientists take the census of the stars in our galaxy?
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Marguerite
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I think it's basically an ongoing process of discovery, but I'm not sure if anyone is specifically counting them.
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All of them ? Kepler Telescope is taking a census of stars like the sun and ESA mission Gaia, scheduled to be launched in 2011, will be the next to do so. Of course this will only cover one thousand million stars or 1% of the entire galactic stellar population. Check out http://galaxymap.org/
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Stars are normally only noted when they are there when they weren't before. If they were there before, they've got to be really interesting for them to be looked at with any regularity. But any new telescope/camera/instrument is usually calibrated with a set of known stars, so it's not like all the stars get counted all the time.
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there cant be a census of the stars the universe is an infinite region ful of stars theres no way of counting the number of stars in the universe . there are so many stars and so many fo ten are dying and being born within our observable range evn that its imposiible to keep track !
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