Let's assume that Edentia is located in the Orion Nebula. For the sake of argument.
Just watched The Contact movie again, after many years. Interestingly, it starts with a camera sequence moving away from Earth deep into the space.
Guess what, they attempted to show how it would look like to pass through Orion Nebula. Check for yourself. A trip from Earth to Edentia, right there in the movie:
http://www.solarmovie.ws/watch-contact-1997-online.html
(By the way, the very first seconds of the movie depict a huge problem presently concerning our planet. The electromagnetic pollution of the local space we generate by our total radio/TV/cellular/radar mess.)