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Does anybody know what the current number of discovered, named, classified, etc. stars scientist know of today?

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According to this easy-to-follow site, about 400,000 stars have been classified by their spectra. Other sites indicate a number of about 1/3 of a million.

According to this answer from Ask Yahoo, the actual number of stars ranges "from more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy to 3 thousand million billion stars (3 followed by 16 zeroes), in the universe. NASA alleges there are zillions of uncountable stars."
 
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