playstyle i did a little bit on the tight side. maybe of a. david berry. like a now it's pressed against. time to leave behind out full cattle a cat filled homes to head out into the great beyond this week's viewer question comes from sandia. why is it dark in outer space. there are more than one hundred billion stars in our milky way and it's just one of the countless galaxies and the universe sensitive instruments like the hubble space telescope have revealed that there are ten times more galaxies out there than we thought just

a few decades ago and these gigantic swarms of stars are distributed quite uniformly throughout space so we should see light shining at us from every direction right. just like we see trees in every direction when standing in the midst of a huge forests but the night sky is mostly dark this apparent contradiction was first described by astronomer jaime. was around two hundred years ago that's why it's called old guys paradox. today we believe the universe formed fourteen billion years ago and what's the big bang.