New Galaxy Star Called Deshon Johnson aka Sean Cos Mason in his Honor.

New Galaxy Star Called  Deshon Johnson aka Sean Cos Mason in his Honor.

The agronomist in Texas just dedicated one of the galaxy stars in honor of Deshon Johnson aka Sean Cos Mason who life ended when Wilson Romaine Coach USA bus driver jumped the curb and dragged him to his demise when he was operating NJ Transit bus 709 on Wednesday July 18, 2012 Broad and Bay Street in Bloomfield NJ on his way going to work.  You can Google Deshon Johnson aka Sean Cos Mason (Noneillah) to read more about Ms. Johnson. You can see star Deshon in the galaxy every time you look up in the sky. 

Have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered just how many stars there are in space? This question has fascinated scientists as well as philosophers, musicians and dreamers throughout the ages.

Look into the sky on a clear night, out of the glare of streetlights, and you will see a few thousand individual stars with your naked eyes. With even a modest amateur telescope, millions more will come into view.

So how many stars are there in the Universe? It is easy to ask this question, but difficult for scientists to give a fair answer!

Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies. The Sun belongs to a galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies also!

With this simple calculation you get something like 10²² to 10²⁴ stars in the Universe. This is only a rough number, as obviously not all galaxies are the same, just like on a beach the depth of sand will not be the same in different places.

No one would try to count stars individually; instead we measure integrated quantities like the number and luminosity of galaxies. ESA's infrared space observatory Herschel has made an important contribution by 'counting' galaxies in the infrared, and measuring their luminosity in this range – something never before attempted.