Olbers' paradox
[ ohl-berz ]
/ ˈoʊl bərz /
noun Astronomy.
the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
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Origin of Olbers' paradox
First recorded in 1950–55; after H.W.M. Olbers
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