I imagine it like looking at a a forest, you see the first couple trees very clear, and the farther you look into the forest you see less and less trees, because the view is blocked? So how can we see stars so far deep into space? Wouldn’t the stars block each others view?
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If they were as dense as a forest, sure, but they aren’t.
Take a look at this picutre:
[http://darksitefinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMGP8189-copy.jpg](http://darksitefinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMGP8189-copy.jpg)
That kind of cool looking stripe running down diagonally? That’s the galaxy. The whole galaxy. And it’s basically transclucent. That’s how not-dense the galaxy is, that you can look through the whole thing *sideways* and still see the other side.
All of the viewpoints that end on stars you are already seeing: those are the stars in the picture. All that dark stuff? Empty space. Nothing to see there without advanced telescopes and then you’re seeing extremely distant galaxies which are huge.
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