Make sure you click on that bad boy so you can see a bigger image.What you're looking at is "the most detailed survey" of "nearby" (2 light years, or about 11.8 trillion miles) space ever, developed at Swinburne University of Technology, in Australia. The image shows approximately 110,000 tiny points of light. Right now, you're thinking "Damn, that's ALOT of stars". Oh no, my friend.
Each one of those dots of light . . .is a GALAXY!!!
Allow me to give you a little more perspective, melt your skull down a little further and put you into full on existential crisis mode: An average sized galaxy contains about 100 Billion stars (our own galaxy, the Milky Way, contains about 200B). So to get a grip on exactly what's happening here, you are looking at the light of somewhere around 11,000,000,000,000,000 (11 Quadrillion) stars!!!
Suddenly all you bullshit seems a little less important, doesn't it?
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