The 'fact' about the stars in the sky being so far way... Is flat out incorrect! These are Milky Way galaxy stars (where we live) and they aren't that far away. Most stars live millions to many billions of years. The furthest star you are going to see, with your eyes, are, at most, ~10000 light years distant. That's not very long in star time!
The most stars you can see with your naked eye is about ten thousand of them...roughly the number of grains in a handful of sand. This is only the smallest fraction of the number of stars that are. The number of stars that are is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches on earth. - Carl Sagan
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