Question

Twinkling of star is an example of which phenomenon

Answer 1

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• Twinkling of stars is due to the phenomena 'Atmospheric Refraction of star light'.

• When the starlight enters inside the earth's atmosphere undergoes continous refraction before it reaches, the earth's atmospheric refraction occur in the medium of gradually changing refractive index.

• Also, the earths atmosphere bends the starlight towards normal so the apparent position of the star is slightly above form its actual position.

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