To make distances like this picturable in my head I think of multiples of our galaxy’s diameter. If my math is correct this 1.3B lyrs is 13,000 milkyways away.
(our galaxy is 100,000 lyrs wide, 1000 lyrs thick, and the central bulge is 10,000 lyrs thick)
oops. The center of this thing is 425M lyrs away, so if I didn’t screw up the math again the center is 4250 milkyways from us.
That doesn’t sound very far away.