
Why do stars twinkle?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Seeing a Star Dimmed by an Exo Planet
This is an example of a star getting a small eclipse from an exo planet, wherei caussee, these are planets, they don't come in front of the sun that often. But sometimes we see stars with much more dramatic dimming than we could ever explain with exo planets or even dust swarms. If i was out in space in my spacesuit and looked at the stars, would i see the stars twinkling, or would they look pretty, over all, pretty constant to my eyeball? This is pretty unusual. Most of the stars are pretty constant. Sometimes there are things that interfere with the starlight, and that's fascinating for astronomers. And thit
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