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Cosmology PART 2 with Katie Mack

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Planets Don't Twinkle

Stars appear to twinkle when you're looking through the atmosphere because the atmosphere is bending the light a little bit just by being like a little bit hotter, a little bit wetter or something in different parts. The brighter a star is sometimes that makes it look less twinkly or more depending on kind of what the air is doing. But planets don't twinkle. Why not?

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