Every single star you see is a star within our own galaxy.
Only three galaxies outside our own galaxy can even be seen by the unaided eye and none of them look like a star.
the Andromeda Galaxy, appear as just a faint smudge of light roughly the size of the moon, if you are on a clear dark night. So faint in fact that it almost disappears if you look directly at it and can only beat see it if you slightly avert your eyes. (The most light sensitive part of your retina is not by looking directly ahead).
The other two are small satellite galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy, the large and small Magellanic Clouds.
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