I use a little from burhams to give others some perspective .
Our galaxy scaled down to fit neatly over the land mass of australia
is still several kilometres thick.. To find where we are come out 3/4 of the way from alice springs and 3 kilometres up and look close ..real close theres our sun the size of a marble or so .. you cant see the planets as there to small .. alpha cent is about 800 m away.. yet as fast as we can send something towards it its still 10 000 years to get there and thats the closest other star to us .. fill in the rest of the country with similar scale and you have it .. a little closer together around the centre and a little further away around the edges.. and thats just one galaxy .. to add some scale to that .. find a bit of sky where between the stars you can look through and behond our galaxy .. as deep as you can see .. what do you see?.. every faint point of light you can see is more galaxys .. makes you feel a little humbled to be such a small yet intricate part of it all.
