Olbers

Paradox
In astrophysics and physical
cosmology, Olbers' paradox,
named after the German
astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm
Olbers (1758–1840), also known
as the "dark night sky paradox",
is the argument that the darkness
of the night sky conflicts with the
assumption of an infinite and
The poet Edgar Allan Poe
eternal static universe,
suggested that the finite size of
essentially asking why is the
the observable universe resolves
night sky dark.
the apparent paradox. More
specifically, because the universe
is finitely old and the speed of
light is finite, only finitely many
stars can be observed from Earth
(although the whole universe can
be infinite in space). The density
of stars within this finite volume
is sufficiently low that any line of
Another explanation may be sight from Earth is unlikely to
derived from the fact that stars reach a star.
have a finite age and a finite
power, thereby implying that
each star has a finite impact on a
sky's light field density.
However, stars are continually
being born as well as dying. As
long as the density of stars
throughout the universe remains
constant, regardless of whether
the universe itself has a finite or
infinite age, there would be
infinitely many other stars in the
same angular direction, with an
infinite total impact. So the finite
age of the stars does not explain
the paradox.

The most acceptable explanation states that the universe is always

expanding, which means that distant light has not reach us yet.