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This causes the star's image to change slightly in brightness and position, hence "twinkle." This is one of the reasons the Hubble telescope is so successful: in space, there is no atmosphere to make the stars twinkle, allowing a much better image to be obtained.
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Stars twinkle because of turbulence in the atmosphere of the Earth which result in light from stars being refracted in different directions. It is not because of dust particles. The twinkling of stars can be used to identify the reflected l...
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You will notice that stars closer to the horizon twinkle more; this is because there is a lot more atmosphere between you and a star near the horizon than between you and a star in the zenith (the point directly overhead) . You will also notice that planets do not twinkle.
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A star is a point of light. It is so far away that even the largest telescope cannot show the star's disk. The atmosphere changing between the star and your eye causes starlight to twinkle.
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A star may appear to change colors rapidly due to atmospheric turbulence. Outside the Earth's atmosphere, the stars don't twinkle. That's why the Hubble Space Telescope is able to capture such clear and amazing photographs of the stars.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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" Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star " is one of the most popular English nursery rhymes. The lyrics are from an early nineteenth-century English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is in ...
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The rising air causes images to waver. This is what causes the twinkling effect in stars. The lower a star is in the sky, the more it will twinkle because its light must pass through more of the atmosphere.
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