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Why do stars twinkle?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Twinkling Stars

A star called epsilon orig is eclipsed every 27 years by some giant dust cloud which orbits it. If you fast forwarded the universe, this one would seem to twinkle. It's like a very slow motion twinkle. The shade of the light that comes through tells you kind of what it went through exactly. That's because different elements emit a different qencies and absorb at those same frequencies.

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