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The ones that twinkle are stars, the apparently similar sized ones are planets) which don't twinkle neither does the moont.

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There are essentially three types of permanent lights in the sky: stars, planets and the moon

  • Stars twinkle because they are essentially points of light. As a result the diffraction of the atmosphere caused by winds and temperature conditions shifts their apparent locations slightly. The now here, now there effect is what we call twinkling
  • The planets which are visible are small enough to seem to be like stars. However they are close enough that they present disks, not points of light, to our eyes. As a result the same defraction of light moves them only part of their diameter. The result is that they are here then a bit to another direction but not jumping in their apparent location. Hence no twinkle.
  • The moon s even bigger as a disk. The diffraction of light causes no apparent movement at all as each tiny part of the moons surface would potentially be moved not the entire moon image.
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