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...

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...

Olbers is a lunar impact crater that lies at the west edge of the Oceanus Procellarum, near the western limb of the Moon. It lies to the northwest of the...

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...

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...

(1777–1855), German mathematician DMP · 1001 1002 Olbersia 1923 OB Heinrich Olbers (1758–1840), German astronomer DMP · 1002 1003 Lilofee 1923 OK Lilofee,...

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...

Big Bang theory by 80 years, as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers' paradox. Poe eschewed the scientific method in Eureka and instead wrote...

Piazzi  · 939 km MPC · JPL 2 Pallas — Pallas March 28, 1802 Bremen H. W. Olbers PAL 511 km MPC · JPL 3 Juno — Juno September 1, 1804 Sternwarte Lilienthal...

Wilhelm Matthias Olbers in a letter to Carl Friedrich Gauss from 6 February 1823, printed in: Carl Friedrich Gauß, Briefwechsel mit H.W.M. Olbers, Georg Olms...

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...

The Olbers, one of the ships that carried Old Lutherans to the Western Hemisphere...

Alida Olbers Wester (1842–1912) was a Swedish botanist noted for studying plant anatomy, particularly the structure of the pericarp. Olbers, Alida. (1887)...

Felix Seyffer, with whom Gauss stayed in correspondence after graduation; Olbers and Gauss mocked him in their correspondence. On the other hand, he thought...

31 December 1801, von Zach and fellow celestial policeman Heinrich W. M. Olbers found Ceres near the predicted position and thus recovered it. At 2.8 AU...

Okuni; amateur T. Okuni (7769) Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers 2 1758–1840 H. W. Olbers; H. W. Olbers (1002) R. M. Olivera 3 n.a. R. M. Olivera; amateur,...

law predicted there should be a planet. About 15 months later, Heinrich Olbers, a member of the celestial police, discovered a second object in the same...

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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...

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for Vesta, , was created by German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Olbers, having previously discovered and named one new planet (as the asteroids...

July 2024). "ATel #16705: TRAPPIST bright comets production rates: 13P/Olbers, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan – ATLAS) and C/2021 S3 (PanSTARRS)". The Astronomer's...

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PMID 36622115. S2CID 255544218. Beamish AJ, Ryan Harper E, Järvholm K, Janson A, Olbers T (August 2023). "Long-term Outcomes Following Adolescent Metabolic and...

p. 23 Peck et al. 2010 O'Hara, Rowden & Williams 2008 Rintoul, Hughes & Olbers 2001, e.g. p. 271 Storer, B.A., Buzzicotti, M., Khatri, H. et al. Global...

Heinrich Olbers asserted that if this were true, then the entire night sky would be filled with light and bright as day; this is known as Olbers' paradox...

(326 mi). It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and...

interpretation of Hubble's law is relevant to the old conundrum known as Olbers' paradox: If the universe were infinite in size, static, and filled with...

cosmic origin. After reviewing historical records, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers predicted the storm's return in 1867, drawing other astronomers' attention...