Do you know how many stars you can count under the best conditions? About 2,500 to 3,000. But that faintly glowing band of light you see in the further distance is the combined light of probably a billion stars. This, however, is still only a tiny fraction of a percentage of the total number of stars in our galaxy.
Attempting to imagine the hugeness of the universe (is hugeness a word?) is just as much an exercise in futility. A million earths could fit inside the sun. If the sun were the size of a marble (1 cm across), just the nearest star would be another marble 180 miles away. And there are about 400 billion stars just in our galaxy. And there are about a trillion galaxies within the visible universe.
And yet we are doomed to be trapped in our own solar system for the foreseeable future. That is until someone can figure out a way around the galaxy that doesn’t take centuries and huge amounts of energy...............