Importing Stars

I have collection of data points I want to import into Blender and set up as stars. How would I do this???

Easier way- Go into the world options. Click the STARS button.

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I thought about that, but I have a set of points I want to transform into an animation with labels. The set of starts is also in a 2D plane and I want it to be the focus of the animation not the background.

I fear that what you are going to have to do is make a request, hat in hand, in the Python script section of the form. Politely ask if anyone can write the script for you, and explain the format of your data point collection.