Does that mean that roughly around the time our sun dies that many more stars will also be dying ?
And then will there simply be way less stars in the universe than there are today?
And then will there simply be way less stars in the universe than there are today?
This is interesting to me because there are a lot of seemingly arbitrary ways you can try to make the size and age of the universe comprehensible, and relative to a human scale is arbitrary but at least kinda means something.
And the commenter above measured our point on a cosmic time scale by looking at where on that timeline our sun formed relative to other sunlike stars. By that metric we are kind of "in the middle." But for me the natural next question is compared to stars in general, as "sunlike stars" is maybe a bit of a texas target.
For me, in my position of refraining from associating life with particular types stars, I at least feel a bit more reassurance to think of us as in the company of stars writ large, by which measure we're not so close to the end of the cosmic span of time.
That said, I think sun-like stars is a perfectly legitimate measure to put alongside the others when casting about for intuitive ways of assessing where we stand on a cosmic timeline.