Science, asked by warisalikhan132, 2 months ago

Starts twinkle but we do not not
the twinckeing of
Planets.​

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Answered by pratyush15899
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Explanation:

The planets are much closer to the earth surface than stars and are also bigger in size. Due to this small variation in their position isn't noticable thus they didn't twinkle.

Twinkling of the star is due to refraction of light from stars through atmosphere. The stars emit their own light. The light coming from the stars on entering the earth atmosphere undergoes refraction continuously at each layer of atmosphere having different density before it reaches the earth. The stars are very much distant objects and may be considered as point sources.

The planets are much closer to the earth, and are thus seen as extended sources. If we consider a planet as a collection of a 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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