Why Do Stars Twinkle?

Why do stars twinkle?

Okay, here again is something you've always wondered, those little guys up there that twinkle at night like the butt of a glow worm, what makes them twinkle. Before reading this article,if you are opportuned to read it at night, ask those stars "hey, why do you glow?"

Stars twinkle because of the instability of the earth's atmosphere often called turbulence. Yeah, as the earth's atmosphere is agitated, the light from the star is diffracted and the fractions shine down the earth, making it change it's brightness from all shiny and twinkly to a little bit and from there to glittery and beautiful, hence making it twinkle.

Why do some stars twinkle more than others?

If you watched closely, stars that happen to be closer to the horizon twinkle more than the ones far away from it. Why? This is because the stars closer to the horizon has more atmosphere than others so this rule is observed. "The more the atmosphere, the more the twinkle that is the stars twinkle increases with increasing atmosphere I.e the stars twinkle is directly proportional to the quantity of atmosphere. So when next you see the stars tell them" hey you, I know why you twinkle, sciencesnipers provided answers to my question ".

But you may have questions like if the sun really is a star, why doesn't it twinkle? If you wanna know,

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