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in Class 12 by kratos

Explain why the planets do not twinkle?

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by kratos
 
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Planets are much closer to the earth and are seen as extended sources, so a planet may be considered as a collection of a large number of point size light sources, although light coming from individual point sized sources flicks but the total amount of light entering our eye from all the individual point sized sources average out to be constant thereby planets appear equally bright and there is no twinkling of planets.

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