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If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Future of the Infinitely Bright Night Sky

As time goes on, the night sky gets darker and darker. That's for the reason that you mentioned earlier, that the universe is expanding. We can see a larger portion of space, but things are sort of moving out of that space faster than light itself ri so imagine like a sphere that's growing that's our observable universe. But things are rushing out of that sphere faster than the sphere itself is growing. So the expansion of the universe has decreased the number of things in the observable universe,. increasing the darkness of the night sky.

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