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A black sky and a universe filled With starlight: Olbers’ paradox still unresolved

Why doesn’t the night sky appear as a blanket of bright light? It all has to do with cosmic expansion and the finite lifetimes of the most distant stars. Contrary to what one might believe, the night sky does not shine completely with the light of all the stars in the universe. Imagine that we are in a forest so dense that, no matter where we look, we can only see the trunk of a single tree instead of all the others. Something similar happens wi…
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Yourweather.co.uk | Meteored broke the news in on Thursday, February 12, 2026.
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