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Why do stars twinkle but planet do not? |
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Answer» It is because stars are far away and planets are near to us so every point cannot reach our eye this why planets donot twinkle . Because of the atmospheric we see twinkling effect as we see the apparent position of the star. The planet are closer to the earth as compared to the stars so the light receive from the planets must greater and the fluctuation caused in the amount of light due to the atmospheric reaction are negligble as a compared to the amount of a light receive from them so that our planets do not twinkle. Stars twinkle because … they’re so far away from Earth that, even through large telescopes, they appear only as pinpoints. And it’s easy for Earth’s atmosphere to disturb the pinpoint light of a star. As a star’s light pierces our atmosphere, each single stream of starlight is refracted – caused to change direction, slightly – by the various temperature and density layers in Earth’s atmosphere. |
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