This image’s taken from a space probe Voyager 1, of Earth from a distance of 6 billion kilometers – a mere pale dot, less than a pixel against the “vastness of space” of the Solar System.
The streaks are bands of sunlight scattered by the camera’s optics. Earth was caught in the center of one of the scattered light rays.
The Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy.
NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Laniakea – Our Home Supercluster Of Galaxies. The just-identified (in 2014 A.D.) Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies contains thousands of galaxies that includes our Milky Way Galaxy, the Local Group of galaxies, and the entire nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. The colossal supercluster is shown in the above computer-generated visualization, where green areas are rich with white-dot galaxies and white lines indicate motion towards the supercluster center. An outline of Laniakea is given in orange, while the blue dot shows the location of the Milky Way galaxy. Outside the orange line, galaxies flow into other galatic concentrations. The Laniakea Supercluster spans about 500 million light years and contains about 100,000 times the mass of our Milky Way Galaxy. The discoverers of Laniakea gave it a name that means “immense heaven” in Hawaiian.
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.
Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is not heard.
Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.” Psalms 19:1-10
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,” Psalms 8:2-6