Just Do It !!! Basics in Physics #1
Stars appear to be twinkling at night due to
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The starlight that enters our eyes suffer refraction in the atmosphere.
Due to disturbances in the atmosphere, the light flickers which is what we perceive as twinkling (because we are poets?).