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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We do not definitively know that there are infinite stars. We only know that there are many. So yes, there is only a certain number of them, who’s light is currently reaching earth. So of them are already dead, and we only receive their last rays of light, some others are already up, but their first beams havent reached us yet. But between them is vast void of nothingness. (That is currently challenged by the theories about dark matter, but that certainly does not emit visible light soo)

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