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Olbers' paradox en · PROPN

Etymology

From Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer.

Meanings

  1. 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.

wikipedia: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers