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Olbers's paradox, also
known as the dark
night paradox or
Olbers and Cheseaux's paradox, is an
argument in
astrophysics and
physical cosmology that says...
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Olbers is a
lunar impact crater that lies at the west edge of the Oce**** Procellarum, near the
western limb of the Moon. It lies to the
northwest of the...
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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (/ˈɔːlbərz/; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11
October 1758 – 2
March 1840) was a
German astronomer. He
found a
convenient method of...
- 13P/
Olbers is a
periodic comet with an
orbital period of 69 years. It fits the
classical definition of a Halley-type
comet with a
period between 20 and...
- The
Olbers-Planetarium is
located in the Free
Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany,
recording about 29.000
visitors a year. It was
named after Heinrich Wilhelm...
- 13P/
Olbers, a
periodic comet Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a
German astronomer Olbers (crater), on the Moon
Olbers, a 200 km
diameter dark albedo...
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Wilhelm Matthäus
Olbers discovered and
named the
asteroid (2) Pallas, a
second object in
roughly the same
orbit as (1) Ceres.
Olbers proposed that these...
- the
subway lines near the
location of the earthquake. MTA
Chairman Stan
Olber opposes,
believing that
there is no
threat to the trains.
Seismologist Dr...
- Earth's atmosphere, the sky is
black day and night. An
illustration of
Olbers'
paradox (see below)
Image of the
central black hole of
Messier 87 taken...
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nighttime sky
would be as
bright as the Sun itself; this
became known as
Olbers'
paradox in the 19th century.
Newton believed that an
infinite space uniformly...
