The stars sparkle in the night sky as Earth’s atmosphere warps their incoming light. In truth, starlight appears steady as it speeds through space, only becoming distorted as it travels the last few ...

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Secrets hide in the twinkling of stars. A research team led by scientists at the Flatiron Institute and Northwestern University has created first-of-their-kind computer simulations showing how ...

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 ...

Science 101 tells us that the twinkling appearance of stars from our vantage point on Earth is due to atmospheric effects: winds and varying temperatures and densities in the air bend and distort the ...

Stars have an innate twinkle that comes from gas rippling from the core to the surface. Researchers have now converted these oscillations into sound to help figure out how it happens. From here on ...

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 ...

We all know how the lullaby goes, but now astrophysicists have finally caught up — reproducing the eerie thrumming sound of a star's "twinkle, twinkle" for the first time. By simulating the turbulent ...

From our vantage point here on Earth, stars twinkle because our atmosphere warps light passing through it. When astronomers look through telescopes orbiting above Earth’s atmosphere, like Hubble and ...

Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends starlight as it travels to Earth. But stars also have an innate 'twinkle' -- caused by rippling waves of gas on their ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Daniel Reardon is a Postdoctoral researcher at ...