Eli5: If there’s infinite stars, why isn’t our night sky completely lit up?

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As the title says, if there’s infinite stars, wouldn’t the light from all of them have reached us and made our night sky become completely white from the number of stars there are? Is there just not enough stars in proximity to earth for all the light to reach us in time to see?

I’m sure there’s a simple answer, but it’s 1am here and my brain can’t figure it out.

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Adding to this, the human eye can see a very limited range of light. The cosmic background radiation is also a form of light. Stars too far tend to be infrared so we can’t see it but images of CBR show that there’s everything mostly everywhere.

Don’t take this info too seriously and do some research because this is from the top of my head. Can’t google right now.

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