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Explain why the planets do the twinkle.... |
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Answer» Planet\'s didn\'t twinkle mate ? Planets are much closer to the earth and are seen as extended source. So, a planet may be considered as a collection of a large number of point-sized light sources. Although light coming from individual point-sized sources flickers but the total amount of light entering our eye from all the individual point-sized sources average out to be constant. Thereby, planets appear equally brighter and there is no twinkling of planets. Due to atmospheric refraction |
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