why is the night sky not bright?

The illustration below shows an infinite number of stars, so if we look out from earth there are stars everywhere in the universe.
Why then isn’t the sky completely white? Wouldn’t it make sense that all that light would light up all of space? What is absorbing the light?

It’s known as Olbers’ paradox and you can read about it here.

I just wanted to point you to a great Wiki article. Go read it if your perplexed.

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