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Why the stars are twilinkling while the planets are not? |
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Answer» And planets don\'t twinkle because planets are closer to earth and are seem as extended source of light . i.e the collection of large number of point size sources of light. Therefore, the total amount of light entering our eyes from all individual point source will nullify the twinkling effect . Twinkling of stars is due to atmospheric refraction. Distinct star act like a point source of light. As the beam of star light keeps deviating from it\'s path ,the apparent position of the star keeps on changing because physical condition of earth\'s atmosphere is not stationary. Hence, the amount of light enters our eyes flactuate sometime bright and some time faint .this is twinkling effect of star. ? to |
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