Star Light, Star Bright: Measuring All the Starlight (Ever!)

If you made a wish on every star in the universe, you'd need to make about a trillion trillion wishes--that's a 1 followed by 24 zeros. Of course, you can't see all of those stars from your bedroom window. You can't even see them all from the Hubble Space Telescope, and you won't be able to with the James Webb Space Telescope either. Fermi-LAT and Clemson University astrophysicist Marco Ajello enjoys a spectacular view of the stars. Image Credit: Pete Martin / Clemson University. But even though...