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I recently learned, that part of the answer to Olber's paradox is, that a large portion of the stars, whose light does reach us, are simply redshifted out of the visible spectrum. Does this mean that I could go outside with a pair of night vision goggles and see stars that I couldn't normally?

by /u/ElisaKristiansen in /r/askscience

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