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star count  

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  • Star counts are bookkeeping surveys of stars and the statistical and geometrical methods used to correct the survey data for bias. The surveys are most often made of nearby stars in the Milky Way galaxy. One of the interests of astronomy is to determine how many stars there are of each of several types that stars can be categorized into, and how these stars are distributed in space. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_count)

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