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People have been asking why space is dark despite being filled with stars for so long that this question has a special name – Olbers’ paradox.

I finally get the answer to the classic astronomy riddle known as Olbers’ Paradox.

Let’s take a moment to consider everyone’s favorite null result: Olbers’ paradox.

But there is a precedent of sorts in an old riddle known as Olbers’ Paradox, after Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, a 19th-century amateur astronomer who enunciated a problem that had bothered some astronomers since the 16th century: Why is the sky dark at night?