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RonAsheton
What amazes me is that almost everything we see in the night sky is from the milky way other than about 7 or 8 objects (large galaxies). And those stars we can see in the milky-way are part of our local group. Only in very recent times have we're realised that there's anything actually beyond our own galaxy. The total number of stars that can be seen with the naked eye is only 9,095, according to the Bright Star Catalogue...