Explain why the planets do not twinkle?

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asked Jun 13, 2017 in Physics by Kundan kumar (49,132 points) 34 384 1027

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answered Jun 13, 2017 by Vikash Kumar (144,729 points) 8 11 21
selected Jan 30, 2018 by faiz
 
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Planets do not twinkle because they appear larger in size than the stars as they are relatively closer to earth. Planets can be considered as a collection of a large number of point-size sources of light. The different parts of these planets produce either brighter or dimmer effect in such a way that the average of brighter and dimmer effect is zero.
Hence, the twinkling effects of the planets are nullified and they do not twinkle.

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