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No. If you see a star flicker, chances are you are not seeing something that happened to the star itself, but a result of light being distorted as it travels through Earth's atmosphere.

Anyway the stars in the big dipper are at different distances from Earth.

It's not as though light takes 139 years to reach us from all of them.

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