Have you considered the distances in the universe? Galaxies are close!

[Richard.20.12]

Sure the distances between stars are immense with the nearest one 4.3 light years away, a distance we can't even imagine. What is interesting though is that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is about 100,000 light years in diameter. We're about 1/4 out from its center. The Earth rotates, it revolves around the sun and the sun revolves around the Milky Way galaxy and its galaxy is moving through space. And we're busy with social media worried if someone is going to like us.

Anyway, around us there's slim to no chance any stars near us are going to collide with each other.

But looking beyond our galaxy the picture shrinks dramatically. So our galaxy is about 100,000 light years in diameter yet there are two satellite galaxies close to us called the Magellanic Clouds, visible only in the southern hemisphere that are only 163,000 and 206,000 light years away. Pretty close, right? The nearest independent galaxy - fabulous image of the Andromeda galaxy here https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Andromeda_Galaxy_560mm_FL.jpg (double click it for full resolution) is only about 2.5 million light years away from our galaxy. Just 25 times our diameter away. Vastly different when looking at our star and the nearest star. So basically the distance to the nearest star is 5600 times more comparatively than the distance from our galaxy to the nearest galaxy. 5600 is a big difference! Visualize a soccer ball and the nearest one is more than a mile away.

One wonders why God chose to do this.
Why make stars so very far away from each other and galaxies so much closer to each other comparatively?

 

[Tolworth John]

One wonders why God chose to do is.

If the universe is waste beyond our imagination, than God is even greater as ne created it and to parapharase, holds galaxies in the palm of his hand.'

The sise of the universe makes those who contemplate it consider their significance.

what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
psalm 8.

 

[Richard.20.12]

If the universe is way beyond our imagination, then God is even greater as He created it and to paraphrase, holds galaxies in the palm of His hand.'

The size of the universe makes those who contemplate it consider their significance.

what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
psalm 8.

The question is why are galaxies so much closer to each other than stars.

 

[DiscipleOfChrist85]

Galaxies are stellar structures made of stars so of course they are comparatively closer

 

[Richard.20.12]

Galaxies are stellar structures made of stars so of course they are comparatively closer

Not sure what their composition has to do with it. Plus we're talking about a difference of 5600 times. The Magellanic Clouds are so close we're almost hitting them after all. The closest galaxy (Andromeda) is only about 25 times the distance away of our own galaxy's diameter.

 

[Bob Crowley]

If we ever get to the Star Trek technology stage, it's only a matter of time before some drunk astronaut crashes into a galaxy. "Shorry Officer, but ... hic ... that galaxy weaved all over the flight path before I hit it!"

 

[Richard.20.12]

If we ever get to the Star Trek technology stage, it's only a matter of time before some drunk astronaut crashes into a galaxy. "Shorry Officer, but ... hic ... that galaxy weaved all over the flight path before I hit it!"

Cute! Except you don't crash into a galaxy. You crash into a star. Except stars are very far apart.