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Why do stars twinkle?1
Secondary School Science 5 points
Why do stars twinkle
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Stars twinkle, I mean scintillate, because as light passes down through a volume of air, turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere refracts light differently from moment to moment. From our perspective, the light from a star will appear in one location, then milliseconds later, it'll be distorted to a different spot.

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stars twinkle at night due to atmospheric refraction and the continuously  

changing atmosphere refracts the light from the stars by different amounts from one moments to the next