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Burnham's Model 

So, in our model, we sketch the orbit of the Earth around the Sun as a
circle one inch in diameter. That sets the scale of the model. One light
year is one mile in the model.

The Sun scales to approximately 1/100 of an inch in diameter, a very fine
pencil point is needed to place it at the center of the circle.

Pluto is an invisibly small speck approximately three and a half feet from
the Sun. 

The nearest star to us is four and a half MILES away. So we must visualize
two specks of dust, each 1/100 inch in diameter, four and a half miles
apart from one another. And this is in a moderately densly packed arm of
our galaxy.

All the stars are, on the average, as far from each other as the nearest
ones are from us. Imagine, then, several hundred billion stars scattered
throughout space, each one another Sun, each one separated by a distance
of several light years (several miles in our model) from its nearest
neighbor.

The collection of stars that makes up our Milky Way galaxy is about one
hundred thousand miles in diameter (model). This is surrounded by many
hundreds of thousand of miles of empty space, before we get to the next
galaxy.