Why don’t the planets twinkle?

1.	Why don’t the planets twinkle?
Answer» 1. The planets are much closer to the earth, and are thus seen as extended sources. 2. We can consider a planet as a collection of a large number of point-sized sources of light. 3. 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 twinkling effect

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1. The planets are much closer to the earth, and are thus seen as extended sources.

2. We can consider a planet as a collection of a large number of point-sized sources of light.

3. 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 twinkling effect

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