Giant Leaps 100,000,000,000,000,000 km

1020 meters = 100,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers

You are hovering outside the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. The cluster of stars you see inside it represent the 100,000 or so closest stars to the sun. These are all the stars for which we have accurate information. Everything else you see here is a guess, based on the overall shape of the band of light in the sky we know as the Milky Way.