Why can't my headlights shine more than 160 feet in front of me, but stars can emit light that travels allllll the way the fuck to us here on the earth... I understand that on earth, there is atmosphere and whatnot that scatters and stops the light from shining further, but isnt starlight travelling through arguably much more atmosphere to shine all the way the fuck to my eyes? I mean- what the fuck- Why do people believe this shit? Can someone explain to me why I can see starlight from billions of miles away?

I have no evidence to believe this, other than the fact that literally everything we have been told are lies, but I have always sort of thought that Nuclear weapons don't actually exist and that mostly we have been told horror stories and shown hollywood movies to scare us into compliance. Am I totally wrong? probably. But anyway, given the high tensions over nuclear powers atm, I am wondering if anyone has any info on this topic in particular.