
Why do stars twinkle?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Why Do Stars Look Like Little Pin Points?
What i think of as a star is really just one eye pixle, right? Li it like, it doesn't really tell me anything about its shape or size yet. To see a that's really far away, you only really just need one photon. And even if that photon was created with billions of other photons near it, they all shoot out at slightly different angles. By the time thay arrives on earth, it's basically alone. It's the only photon that came from that star. Of course, there are more coming behind it, but that's why the stars seem much dimmer,. The further away they are, because the photons are now spread out over a much
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