Now you're getting to the essence of it. Are you sure it's the same consciousness?
It's all an illusion. Our understanding of the world around us is merely a puny attempt by our conscious mind to see some pattern in it all, to make some meaning out of everything. The meaning of life is life itself. Without life nor all the seas nor all the stars in the firmament would ebb and flow and shine twinkle for nothing. My interpretation is that the stars and galaxies are there so that we may know that there is more than we can experience in our own parochial lives. As far as we know human beings are the only creature in this world that can look at the night sky and wonder. Whether you wish to credit God with all this is down to your own personal credo. Either way, it is there to be marvelled, to be experienced, to be investigated and explored. The rest is silence (Hamlet again).