
Why do stars twinkle?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is It Regular or Unpredictable?
The process of, oh, i i see. It's more like one twinkle like it twinkles ones sometimes. These things are not regular the way like pulsating stars are. And it's not something that we understand, you know, we don't even understand it as well as we understand like solar flares on the surface of our sun. The galaxy is filled with these unassuming, sort of generic, dim red dwarfs. But occasionally one of them becomes like, ridiculously bright for just half a n hour and then goes back to being a boring star.
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