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Why do stars blink?
Asked by Xitan of The Philippines.
Dear Xitan,
Look up to the twinkly stars and you’ll witness starlight traveling from deep space to your eyeballs. That twinkling you see is the light taking lots and lots of detours.
Out in space, astronauts don’t see stars twinkle. I learned about this from my friend, astronaut John Fabian. He studied engineering at Washington State University and flew two space shuttle missions with NASA.
Before his missions, they told him not to worry if the stars weren’t twinkling in space. It’s normal for stars to look totally still when you’re up there. The difference b...
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