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>Chris Crowe is an astrophysicist, teacher, and public lecturer. A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, he works as Head of Astronomy at Harrow School, teaching Astronomy, Physics, Engineering and Computer Science. Chris received Masters’ degrees in both Theoretical Physics and Mathematics before completing a PhD in Astrophysics, affording him the opportunity to be part of a research team studying relic radiation from the big bang, and work in the same department as the late Professor Stephen Hawking...

>>Chris Crowe is an astrophysicist, teacher, and public lecturer. A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, he works as Head of Astronomy at Harrow School, teaching Astronomy, Physics, Engineering and Computer Science. Chris received Masters’ degrees in both Theoretical Physics and Mathematics before completing a PhD in Astrophysics, affording him the opportunity to be part of a research team studying relic radiation from the big bang, and work in the same department as the late Professor Stephen Hawking...

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I am sorry it is hard to accept information that seems untrue. Obviously with a telescope you can resolve far more than 3000. In major cities you might be lucky to see 50 stars on a clear night.

>Can you see the Milky Way?

Yes, I can, but in keeping with my claim you cannot resolve very many individual stars. Without visual enhancement calling the Milky Way billions of stars is making a giant assumption. It may be a true assumption, but my point is not how many stars there actually are. It is how many there appear to be.

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Come on, seriously, you've never seen the Milky Way with your naked eye? There are so many stars it looks like a cloud from earth. 3000 stars? What planet are you on? Did you sleep through science class?

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>Can you see the Milky Way?

Yes. But as you pointed out, it looks like a cloud. You definitely can not count the individual stars.