All those stars are in our galaxy.
That big galaxy is floating on its own, surrunded only by space.
And then that smaller galaxy is just as big in actuality, and floating on its own in space.
And the Milky Way is floating next to those two, and all three are surrounded in the utter blackness of space.
But Hubble has shown that there are so many galaxies, that taken from a wide view, they look like stars.
Just a reminder, because as everyone knows, this planet, alone, in the universe, has life.
: )
Maybe we are the first!
;’)
“Heaven and earth are large, yet in the whole of space they are but as a small grain of rice. How unreasonable it would be to suppose that, besides the heaven and earth which we can see, there are no other heavens and no other earths.” — Teng Mu
Wait, this is the version I was looking for:
“Empty space is like a kingdom, and earth and sky are no more than a single individual person in that kingdom. Upon one tree are many fruits, and in one kingdom there are many people. How unreasonable it would be to suppose that, besides the earth and the sky which we can see, there are no other skies and no other earths.” — Teng Mu, a Chinese scholar of the Sung Dynasty (960 — 1280 A.D.)