The universe is so unfathomably large that 99% of the visual interpretations you see of it in our art, media, even a lot of scientific displays, is done at the wrong scale to make it more comprehensible for us. We do it entirely passively, you draw the stars visible in the Milky Way, you see the galaxies next to eachother, we place stars on maps like they’re close neighbors.
But everything is so far apart that all of humanity will have evolved and will degrade to dust before we even leave a trace of our existence with enough range to potentially touch another civilization.
Space is something our monkey brains literally can not comprehend. When we start to think about what the numbers mean we can’t visualize it.
For example
>>936007288The distance between two pixels in this artistic rendition, were it roughly mapped to a real measurement, is larger than the distance travelled by the voyager probes combined.