The Voyage Of Vanishing Men By Stanley Mullen - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66572/pg66572-images.html

 Earthmen had never ventured into the vast
unknown beyond the galaxy. But now a survey was
ordered and a ship sent out. So Braun went on

 Stars thinned out and drew together. Stars, like luminous lice crawling on the black body of eternity....