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 ...

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 ...

Gazing at the stars on a clear June night can appear magical. "You look up and you just see these little. tiny twinkling lights," said Sarah Komperud, a planetarium educator at the Bell Museum of ...

When you look up into the night sky at a big, bright star, the familiar “twinkling” you see comes from the star’s light wriggling its way through Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. But if you could leap ...