I can see loads of stars, but not as many that I would be able to see if there weren't so many street lights.

Although Merseyside is over 30 miles from here, it causes a glow in the sky. I managed to see the comet with binoculars when there was a gap in the clouds while Meseyside was obscured by dark clouds.

As to the Universe, we are just a tiny dot in it. There are billions upon billions of stars, and that's only in the Universe we know about. Also, what we know is really... "very little".

Space is so vast, to get anywhere, the speed of light is too slow. What people forget when talking/thinking of space travel is that even if we could accelerate to a terriffic speed, the force of acceleration would likely kill us and then there's the question of deceleration. Star Trek is great fiction and although some things "predicted" in it have, or partly have come true, the rest if it is just..... fiction.