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Imaginary. Stars shine pretty constantly until they die, and their deaths are often spectacular. But they don't "wink".
Perhaps you meant "twinkle", in which case they're just stars. The twinkling effect is caused by atmospheric disturbances, and it rather famously doesn't happen to planets, since even though you can't easily tell by eye, they aren't effectively point sources as seen from Earth.
Or then again, perhaps you meant "blink", as happens with pulsars.
I think that I know what this question means. The answer's "eclipsing binaries".
Such binary systems (with short periods) are said to "wink", especially if one of
the stars is much brighter than the other. A famous example is "Algol".
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∙ 12y agoThe Earth's atmosphere, which is always moving, makes stars appear to be twinkling.
A star that really is 'winking' is most likely an eclipsing binary star - two stars orbiting each other.
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As a small/young child, the stars that wink would be called 'twinkling stars'.
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∙ 15y agoan eclipsing binary pair
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