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Explain why the planets do not twinkle ?

Explain why the planets do not twinkle ?

Grade:12th pass

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Pawan Prajapati
askIITians Faculty 60787 Points
3 years ago
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.

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