Or we're in a simulation, and everything we perceive as "out there in the expanse of space" is just fake data like a background on a website...from a processing

Or we're in a simulation, and everything we perceive as "out there in the expanse of space" is just fake data like a background on a website...from a processing standpoint it'd be much easier to feed/render certain views only under observation, otherwise just nothing exists there...it's save resources for a simulation from a computing standpoint... Like in a video game where new areas are rendered as you discover them....