The incredible distance between stars is so vast that the human brain cannot fully grasp the concept. We can only look at numbers, and know it's big. About the best an average person can handle is how far its is to the other side of the world. On a scale even 1/100,000 of just our own galaxy, you, the other side of the world, and all of the planets in our solar system all occupy the same point in space.
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The incredible distance between stars is so vast that the human brain cannot fully grasp the concept. We can only look at numbers, and know it's big. About the best an average person can handle is how far its is to the other side of the world. On a scale even 1/100,000 of just our own galaxy, you, the other side of the world, and all of the planets in our solar system all occupy the same point in space.
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.