Ah, it’s a lovely night for enjoying the outdoors. You go outside in the warm summer air to listen to the crickets and breathe in the scents of verdant life and then turn your head to the heavens. You ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night in a dark area, and the stars appear to twinkle. The concept is so well established that it's the premise of one of the most popular children's songs of all time.

Eyes, snowflakes, stars — I like things that twinkle. Snowflakes glint when struck by sunlight while twinkling stars are an indication of turbulent air. Bumpy air can turn pinpoint stars to fuzzballs ...

Stellar scintillation, or twinkling, is primarily caused by atmospheric distortion of starlight during its passage through Earth's atmosphere. Brighter stars exhibit more pronounced scintillation than ...

Have you ever looked up on a clear night at the stars and noticed that some of them seemed to twinkle or dance? This twinkling is due to the Earth’s atmosphere. When light reaches Earth from a star, ...