The Astronomical Question That Asks Why the Night Sky Is Dark and Has a Strangely Difficult Answer
Olbers' paradox asks why the night sky is dark rather than uniformly bright. In an infinite, eternal, static universe with uniformly distributed stars, every line of sight should eventually intersect a stellar surface — making the entire sky as bright as the sun. The answer requires the universe to be finite in age, or expanding, or both.
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