In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, it doesn't take the fleet long to reach uncharted space, and it takes perhaps less than a year for them to find Kobol.
Even if the Cylon war led to them having their wings clipped, we know from Caprica that space flight was routine before then.
So given that the Colonies appear to have been space-faring for some time, why didn't they explore further out into space?
Answer
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."
Especially considering how quickly the ships can travel, it is easy to see that if they are trying to escape from something (namely the Cylons), and going in a straight line, you can easily reach an area that hasn't been charted very quickly. Think of it this way; compare the time it would take you to chart (with a reasonable degree of accuracy) the state that you live in, with the time it would take you to make a cross country trip. Space is so big that charting an area is going to take much much more time than crossing that same area.
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