Question: Does it ever scare you when you think about how powerful the universe is and to think that our sun could explode and that would just be it ?

Adam Baskerville answered on 25 Jun 2020:

You are correct that the Universe can be a scary place, but it is also a very beautiful one. Luckily for us the Sun is too small to explode as a supernova, instead turning into a red giant many millions of years from now so poses no imminent threat (lucky for us!). There are other phenomena with an example being gamma-ray bursts which are short-lived bursts of gamma-ray light. These can last anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, and shine hundreds of times brighter than a typical supernova and about a million, trillion times as bright as the Sun. When a gamma ray burst erupts, it is briefly the brightest source of cosmic gamma-ray photons in the observable Universe. If one of these was pointed in Earth’s direction it would be catastrophic but luckily none of the known candidates are close enough or oriented in our direction. There are other risks such as asteroids, but I am personally more concerned about dangers here on Earth such as climate change and denial of science as opposed to Universal dangers.