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Olbers' paradox
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Etymology
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From
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers
, German astronomer.
Proper noun
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Olbers
'
paradox
(
astronomy
)
The
observation
that the
night
sky
is mostly
dark
, yet, in a
boundless
universe
of
stars
, every
line of sight
from the
eye
must eventually
intercept
the
surface
of a star.