eli5:with billions of stars emitting photons why is the night sky not bright?

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eli5:with billions of stars emitting photons why is the night sky not bright?

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Because they’re extremely far away and not all of their light hits us. We only capture a fraction of the light that is emitted by each star that’s visible.

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