Even if you flew through edge-on, so you spent as much time as possible in the dense galactic disk, your odds of hitting a star would be only about 1 in 10 billion. (Your odds of hitting a planet would be a thousand times smaller.) For comparison, that’s about the same as the odds of deciding to call Barack Obama, picking up your phone and dialing 10 random digits, and getting his cell number on your first try.
