PBS had a show about the Hubble space telescope.
Here are some images of proto solar systems in Orion Nebula
http://burro.case.edu/Academics/Astr221/SolarSys/Formation/OrionProplyds.jpg
http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/breakthroughs/planetary
They also took a photo of a small area of space, the diameter of a soda straw and found approx 10,000 galaxies with each containing 100 billion stars more or less.
A search at google comes up with the total amount of stars was something like 10 trillion galaxies in the universe and 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars or a “1” with 24 zeros after it. So lots of Star Trek episodes.
The universe is also expanding.
So to sum up we are but a drop on a microscope slide spreading out in some scientists lab. The galaxies are like protozoa.
We are but an atom of hydrogen in the ocean of H2O................................
