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Do Stars Really Twinkle?
Twinkle, twinkle little star,How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky,
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Stars are minute pinpoints of light. No matter how powerful the telescope, a star will always appear just that; a tiny pinpoint, with no discernable disk. When we look at the stars through our turbulent atmosphere, those tiny pinpoints become easily distorted and thus appear to twinkle.
Planets, on the other hand, appear as disks through telescopes. They have a much larger apparent size and hence are not prone to having their light distorted by our atmosphere as much as stars.
Who wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?
Many believe that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the original composer of this childhood song, but this is a misconception. The song has been attributed to a combination of a 1761 French melody and an English poem written by Jane Taylor. Mozart did write twelve variations of this song, but not the original one.
