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#AskAbhijit 122: Science, Technology, Astrophysics!

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Is There an Infinite Number of Stars in the Universe?

The stars are not trillions in number. The approximate number of stars in the observable universe is about ten rays to 24, roughly give or take a couple of zeros here o ther rit. So i don't know what olbers paradox is, but the assumption that there is an infinite number of Stars in the universe is incorrect. There is a finite number of stars. That's why the night sky is dark. And if we look at space from all the observational evidence that we have,  we know that space is mostly empty. Whenga es collide, they are not really colliding. Thy're simply merging. They'll be no actual collision,. bang, bang, bang

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