The first to describe this idea was a German astronomer in 1823, who had led a team that discovered the asteroids Pallas, Vesta and Juno twenty years earlier.  
The first to describe this idea was a German astronomer in 1823, who had led a team that discovered the asteroids Pallas, Vesta and Juno twenty years earlier.  The first proposed solution to the problem was that space was filled with dust, which would attenuate the light from distant objects, leaving only the nearby stars visible.  This ignored the fact that dust re-radiates energy thermally and the problem remained unresolved until the establishment of an evolving, expanding universe one hundred years later. FTP, name this paradox which states that, in a static infinite universe, the entire night sky should be as bright as the sun.
The first to describe this idea was a German astronomer in 1823, who had led a team that discovered the asteroids Pallas, Vesta and Juno twenty years earlier.  
Olbers' paradox