muddyknees2000 said:

This entire debate puzzles me......it seems like the word "fiction" from "science fiction" no longer means anything. Who cares what it is.....its aesthetically pleasing and does not hinder or further the story in any way. I don't see why it needs to be labeled, or visually altered to make it easier to label

Exactly.

It can't really be their own galaxy that they are outside, as they are clearly still surrounded by stars in every direction. If it is a neighbouring galaxy, you wouldn't be able to see it nearly as brightly as that; galaxies to the naked eye are far less luminous than most people think. And not a single foreground star could belong to that galaxy. At such a distance there is absolutely no way you would be able to see an individual star in another galaxy. All foreground stars are in the native galaxy, not in the spiral arms of the neighbouring one.

I do think it was supposed to be a galaxy, but I don't care that it's scientifically inaccurate because it's irrelevant and looks great. If you have to pin it down to being "something" then a forming solar system is good enough, even though it looks like a galaxy.