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Sandhya say: Stars are point source of light when there is trumbling in air the path of their light affected by the air since it is a point source , it appears to jump around which makes twinkling . where as planet looks larger than stars when their light is affected by wind some of their light stays stationary which prevent the twinkling effect.
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Tom say: Stars are SO FAR away they are a single "Point source" of light, thus more susceptible to distortion by the atmosphere, than with planets that are much closer, being seen as several "Points" of light----where the other points are visible as one or two of the other points "twinkle out"---so we don't see the planets entirely "wink out", as do stars.
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One Of Mellos Eyelashes say: World Twinkle
(*whispers* ne ne papa)
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Awesome² say: Planets do twinkle, and so do stars. Whether they emit or reflect radiation is irrelevant; the amount of radiation emitted or reflected stays relatively constant. All light, however, interacts with atmospheric distortion, so everything twinkles.
Alternatively, I guess you could say that all stars are snowflakes and cucks while planets are the dominant alphas, so stars wimp out of producing nice unvarying light.
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RAT M say: Twinkling is caused by atmospheric distortion and anything seen through the atmosphere ( BOTH planets and stars ) twinkle .
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Ronald 7 say: Planets don't burn.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: Stars are point-sources of light; when there's turbulence in the air, the path of the star's light is affected by the moving air. Since it's a point-source, it appears to jump around - which makes the 'twinkling' effect.
The planets we see - Venus, Jupiter, Mars - we can almost see their disks, so they look larger than a single point in the sky; so, when their light is affected by wind, there's *some* of their light that stays stationary, which prevents the 'twinkling' effect.
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