A simple attempt at conveying the scale of the universe...
You know what- I give up on trying to convey the scale of the universe, or even our galaxy, because pictures like this show that it is entirely beyond human conception.
Every one of those points of light is a star, and who the hell knows how many planets that are orbiting those stars? And this is just one picture of one tiny area of our sky imaging a tiny portion of our galaxy which is just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies- go ahead and think about that- I am ending this post now because my brain just exploded...