count stars from an image , is this possible with mathematica?

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I was wondering if "MATHEMATICA" with the amount of instructions it has has any to count points in an image, in this case stars, I imagine comparing contiguous pixels and if they are not black mark 1 or 0 if not with some percentage precision.
There is some instruction capable of processing an image under these conditions.
This concern stems from a documentary by the hubbe telescope, which points to a certain place and the program's announcers say that there are 30,000 galaxies that are seen as points of light.
I would appreciate some example.
I attach some images

Joshua Schrier · Answer

A minimum solution is:
img = Import["https://i.stack.imgur.com/qAfcx.jpg"]; (*first image above*)

ComponentMeasurements[
  Binarize[img],
  "Count"] // Length (*returns: 1018*)

Binarize converts it into a black and white image.  There are options to control the thresholding.
ComponentMeasurements  with the property Count returns a list of rules describe the components and the number of pixels.  In many cases, we get 1 pixel, but there are some larger values
Length just determines how many entries are in the returned list, i.e., how many components.
Certainly, one could also use MorphologicalComponents as well for a task like this.

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