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Noun Concept
Categories: Physical cosmology, Physical paradoxes, Unsolved problems in astronomy, Eponymous paradoxes
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Olbers' paradox  Olbers's paradox  Olber's paradox  Olbers paradox  dark night sky paradox
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Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe. Wikipedia
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Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe. Wikipedia
Evidence for a finite, dynamic universe, based on the luminosity of the night sky Wikipedia Disambiguation
Cosmological contradiction between the observed darkness of the night sky and a static universe model Wikidata
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. Wiktionary
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contradiction
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Thomas Digges
NAMED AFTER
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
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dark night sky paradox, Darkness of the night sky in an infinite universe, Obler's Paradox, Oblers' paradox, Olber's Paradox, Olber's paradox, Olber Paradox, Olbers' paradox, Olbers's Paradox, Olbers paradox, Olbers Paradox, Olbers’s paradox
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dark night sky paradox, photometric paradox

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