Why do we see stars twinkle?

Answer 1

The light of stars must travel through our atmosphere to reach our eyes. It is the interfeance of the atmosphere that causes the stars to appear to 'twinkle'.

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Answer 2

Because the song says so

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark;
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

In the dark blue sky you keep,
While you thro' my window peep,
And you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

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Answer 3

Because they are so far away producing the light. Actually, it is the atmosphere that the light must go through that causes us to see it as a twinkle.

Answer 4

It is the atmosphere that causes starlight to "twinkle". The atmosphere of Earth disrupts or refracts the light from distant stars.

Answer 5

Atmospheric interference

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Answer 6

i was told the blueish ones that twinkle were satellites