Michael McDevitt., age 9, of Marietta, Pennsylvania, for his  question:

Are there more stars than people?

Guess how many stars you could count in the sky. It's no trouble to count five, then ten and maybe 100. If you stayed busy all night, maybe you could count 1000 stars. Some people have counted 2000 stars. Nobody has counted any more than that, one by one. This is not nearly enough to give one star to every person in the world. You could go south of the Equator and count 2040 different stars. We still do not have nearly enough.

There are more than three billion people in the world. This is 3,000,000,000  ¬and there really are enough stars for all of them. We know this, even though we cannot see them. Our stars are just a few that belong in a great wheel of stars. There are 100 billion of them, though most of them are out of sight. That's enough to give more than 30 stars to every person in the world. Farther away there are thousands of other great starry wheels. So there are many, many more stars than there are people.