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Grade 12th pass10 grade science

Explain why the planets do not twinkle ?

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5 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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The planets are much nearer to the earth than stars and because of this they can be considered as large source of light. If a planet is considered to be a collection of a very large number of point sources of light, then the average value of change in the amount of light entering the eye from all point size light sources is zero. Due to this the effect of twinkling is nullified.