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We cannot be sure, of course. Estimates start at about 200 billion and go up from there. The "standard" answer has been about 400 billion for quite a while, but recent discoveries indicate that there may be many more small, invisibly-dim red dwarf and brown dwarf stars than we had previously thought.

For example, the closest star to our Sun is the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, ad 4.2 light years distance. Even that close, it is not visible to the naked eye! How many other stars that size, or even smaller, might be scattered around in the distant reaches of the Milky Way?

We once thought that our Sun was of "average" size. Now we're beginning to suspect that our Sun may be in the upper quarter of stars, just because of the potentially vast numbers of small, dim, dwarf stars.

The total number probably exceeds one trillion stars.

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No one can give you an exact count, but the total number of suns in the universe is probably on the order of 1020.

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