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Explain why the planets do not twinkle. |
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Answer» The planets are much closer to the earth, and are thus seen as extended sources. If we consider a plant as a collection of large number of point sized sources of light, the total variation in the amount of light entering our eye from all the individual point-sized sources will average out to zero, thereby nullifying the twinkling effect. |
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