• Question: how much do stars twinkle?

    Asked by ramz555 to Nazim on 19 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 19 Mar 2012:


      That is a hard thing to say but I can say that stars always twinkle: if they look still to you then they are really just twinkling extra fast. And if you look at stars near the horizon, they twinkle a lot more and even seem to change colour. (But they aren’t really, it is just the atmosphere wobbling the star about a lot.)

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