You Have Never Seen a Normal Star

The stars you can see are a heavily biased sample of the stars that exist. Every star field below is generated from real stellar statistics — drag the sliders and see what your eyes miss.
The Sky — full-sky map from the Sun · dot size = apparent brightness · click or scroll to zoom in, drag to pan, double-click for full sky
The Galaxy — centred on the Sun · drag to rotate · scroll to zoom

Cosmic time — star-formation history, Milky-Way-like galaxy (drag the marker)

Your eyes

city centredark desert night

The census

…that are red dwarfs
Stars within 80 ly of you
…that are red dwarfs
Median distance, visible stars
Median distance, actual stars

What exists vs. what you see

share of stars that exist (within 80 ly)
share of the stars you can see