Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
The astronomer, Carl Sagan, famously said that there were more stars in our Universe than grains of sand on the Earthβs beaches. But was it actually true? More or Less tries to count the nearly uncountable. Content warning: This episode includes gigantically large numbers. (Photo: The barred spiral galaxy M83. Credit: Nasa).
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