How many Star Wars books exist?
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There must be hundreds by now.  At first, only certain authors were allowed to write books based on the Star Wars universe, but that restriction was lifted and now anybody can use the Star Wars characters in their own books.
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Star Wars has a lot of series!
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32\n\nsorry bout the .pdf link. it's the first one i found ;p
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Lots and lots and lots of books.  Thousands of them.  I only own four movies. ;)
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OK, here's the deal with the numbering on the side.\n\n"Original Star Wars Trilogy" (the ones with Harrison Ford, etc.) are Episodes 4, 5, 6.  The Roman numerals on the sides of the cases are the Episode numbers.  Example: V is "The Empire Strikes Back"  Currently, the original three (the last three episodes) are available separately or in box set form.\n\nEpisodes 1, 2, 3 are the ones that were just in theatres (Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was in theatres in Summer 2005).\n\nIf you were planning to buy the films for your friend, I would suggest getting all six in Widescreen format (it'll be marked on the cases).  For the "original" three films (IV-VI), get the new limited edition 2-disc editions.  They have the theatrical and special editions (he'll understand the difference).\n\nHere are links from DVD Empire for image references (get them at Wal-Mart for cheaper):\n\nEpisode I: The Phantom Menace:\nhttp://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365102387650&item_id=32679&searchID=41171\n\nEpisode II: Attack of the Clones:\nhttp://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365102387650&item_id=447548&searchID=41171\n\nEpisode III: Revenge of the Sith:\nhttp://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365102387650&item_id=739368&searchID=41171\n\nEpisode IV: A New Hope:\nhttp://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365102387650&item_id=1122840&searchID=41171\n\nEpisode V: The Empire Strikes Back:\nhttp://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365102387650&item_id=1122842&searchID=41171\n\nEpisode VI: Return of the Jedi:\nhttp://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365102387650&item_id=1122844&searchID=41171\n\n\nHowever, here's the thing...if he's a Star Wars fan, chances are very good that he already owns these discs, so you may have to go for something else.  If he's into collectibles, there's an entire wealth of products out there.\n\n\nUPDATE (ANSWERING YOUR FOLLOW-UP QUESTION):\n\n"Knights of the Old Republic" is not a DVD.  It's a video game for the X-Box and/or PC.  "Clone Wars Volume One" and "Clone Wars Volume Two" are the only complete TV series DVDs available at this time (new TV series are currently in development).
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There are definetly more than nine planetes in the solar system.There are many discovered by scientists and many more are yet to be found. And it is suggested that there are many more solar systems in the milky way.
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Ok here it goes.  Marvel comics published Star Wars comics including several in between ROTJ and ESB.  They wrote and published these comics out side of Lucasfilms so there are several eventual continuity errors.  In Star Wars Annual #1 it states that Obi-wan, Anakin and "another apprentice" traveled to the same planet together.  Vader later claimed to be this other apprentice, when he later returned to the planet and he also stated he killed Anakin and Obi-wan.  This was explained away by claiming that Vader simply lied to conceal his true identity.  But this was still after Luke was told about what Vader had said about killing Anakin and Obi-wan.  These comics aren't general considered to be true Star Wars continuity but there have been strides to incorporate them in.
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There are approximately 100,000,000 stars in our Galaxy. Most stars are in binary or trinary systems. I'll guesstimate the number of stars in binarys is, oh...50,000,000. The answer is clearly in the several tens of millions.
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bummer, i hope you can find it...i haven't had a chance to read it yet and i'm very interested.\n\nJBoy, I see 17 entries...how many are there supposed to be?\nhugs:-)
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No one knows.\n\nThere are about 10 planets in our solar system, depending on whom you ask.\n\nAround 100 planets have been detected in other solar systems.\n\nThere are at least 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy (ours).\n\nIf the average number of planets per star is 10, then there are 2000 billion or 2 trillion planets in our galaxy.\n\nNo one knows how many billion galaxies are in the Universe.
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Unknown. We don't even know for certain how many there are now. There's at least three, but some scientific research indicates there may be as many as 11.
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Not according to George Lucas. The six existing films make up what was originally a single story, the story of how Anakin Skywalker became a Jedi, was lured to the Dark Side, and was ultimately redeemed by his son. Anything more would be an addendum to that story. There will be no film-based explanation of what happened to Darth Vader during the years that Luke and Leia were growing up. To do so would require that episodes 4,5 and 6 be renumbered.\n\nGeorge has talked of a television project in the works. It will take place in the Star Wars universe, but no details on what time frame will be used have been released. One can assume that there will be new characters and that existing characters will only be referenced or mentioned from time to time, but not seen.
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which series-there are many.
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According to the International Astronomical Union (the official policy making body for astronomers) there are 88 constellations.  Each constellation has its own 'border', and every object in the sky falls into one of those constellations.  The best picture I could find is below.  I hope this helped!
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Of course they do.  If the books were more popular, you'd see a lot more people turning into frogs and other weird things like that.  Luckily only 7 people have actually read them.
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Like the number of grains of sand on the beach or angels that can dance on the head of a pin, the number of stars in the sky remains a great unknown. Discussing the number of stars in the Milky Way alone, astronomer William Keel, writing for the sci.astro Galaxies FAQ, claims that there are "about as many as the number of hamburgers sold by McDonald's." \nThen he elaborates. The usual way to determine the number of stars in the universe is to consider how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and then to multiply that number by our best guesstimate at the number of galaxies in the universe. This FAQ suggests there are probably about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, although "a 50% error either way is quite plausible." As for the number of galaxies in the universe, well that's a whole separate mathematical puzzle. \n\nOther star enumerators we located on the Web offer numbers ranging from more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy to 3 thousand million billion stars (3 followed by 16 zeroes), in the universe. NASA alleges there are zillions of uncountable stars.
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Estimates are between 10^22 to 10^24 for the universe.\nhttp://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM75BS1VED_extreme_0.html\nFrom the site in the source -\nLike the number of grains of sand on the beach or angels that can dance on the head of a pin, the number of stars in the sky remains a great unknown. Discussing the number of stars in the Milky Way alone, astronomer William Keel, writing for the sci.astro Galaxies FAQ, claims that there are "about as many as the number of hamburgers sold by McDonald's."\n\nThen he elaborates. The usual way to determine the number of stars in the universe is to consider how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and then to multiply that number by our best guesstimate at the number of galaxies in the universe. This FAQ suggests there are probably about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, although "a 50% error either way is quite plausible." As for the number of galaxies in the universe, well that's a whole separate mathematical puzzle.\n\nOther star enumerators we located on the Web offer numbers ranging from more than 200 billion stars in our galaxy to 3 thousand million billion stars (3 followed by 16 zeroes), in the universe. NASA alleges there are zillions of uncountable stars.\n\nFrom a recent astronomy news article on CNN.com, we learned about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious astronomy project currently mapping the night sky, to determine the "positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects."\n\nSo stay tuned, the star count is still out.