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Answer by uhoh for Why does Venus flicker?
Venus (and Mercury) are highly predisposed to twinkling seen from Earth!The other answers try to explain based on atmospherics alone, without stopping to consider the following:While the outer planets...
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Because planets actually do twinkle. Most people were told that the major difference between stars and planets is that only the former twinkle - but that's an oversimplification. Given the right...
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It's true that planets usually don't flicker, or twinkle (or scincillate, as astronomers like to call it). The reason is that they are close enough that they are actually seen as a disk with a larger...
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I was watching Venus with the naked eye yesterday at about 7 pm and I noticed that it was flickering, almost like a star.I have always learned that planets don't flicker to the naked eye, only stars...
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