Olbers' Paradox
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Olbers' Paradox asks why the night sky is dark if the universe contains infinitely many stars. The resolution is that the universe has a finite age: light from sufficiently distant stars has not had time to reach us, and the expansion of the universe additionally redshifts distant starlight below visible wavelengths.
Category: Cosmology