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Explain why the planets do not twinkle.

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Planets do not twinkle because, unlike stars, they are seen as extended sources of light. When observing a planet, which appears as a disk rather than a point of light, the combined effect of a large number of point-sized sources averages out the total variation in the amount of light entering the observer's eye. This averaging effect nullifies the twinkling phenomenon, making planets appear steady in brightness.

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