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Olber’s paradox asks “why the sky is dark at nights?”. Olber’s paradix is described by German astronomer Heinrich Olbers (1758-1840). Heinrich Olbers released a research paper on this problem in 1826, but we know that also Kepler been thinking about this problem already in 1610.
Olbers thought that if the universe was infinitely large and old, […]

What makes astronomy a wonderful hobby, is that it provides an endless amount of new and interesting things to wonder. One of the classic riddles in astronomy is the Twin Paradox. Why space traveler’s aging slows down in this paradox related to theory of relativity? Read more to know how Homeboy would utilize the twin […]

Have you ever thought about the question “what will happen to this universe”? May be it is misleading to claim that “all this” will end one day, so I would rather ask “how this universe will look like after a VERY long time“. For purpose I do not mention any exact time, […]

  

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