If stars are suns why doesn't our sun flicker/sparkle?

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Answer 1

too close

Answer 2

the stars dont flicker and sparkle

that is an illusion created by our moving atmosphere

it even effects what one sees in a telescope.  

Answer 3

It does, but its to close to us for us to see it flicker

Answer 4

our sun is just too close, so its too bright. the same effects that cause stars to flicker would act on the sun. but the sun puts out a massive amount of white light, which is just all colors. stars do too, but in a much smaller amount. so a small change in the red or blue end would make a big difference.

Answer 5

Due to our distance it over comes us with light if you were much further away it would seem to flicker/sparkle

Answer 6

If we were on a planet around another star, our sun would twinkle in that planet's atmosphere.

Stars twinkle because they are just tiny points of light in the sky, and any turbulence in our atmosphere causes the light to be distorted - to "twinkle".

But when an object in the sky is larger than just a tiny point of light it doesn't twinkle.  That's why the planets don't twinkle in the night sky, and why the sun doesn't either.

Answer 7

Because we are too close to our "star", the "Sun", for it to "flicker or sparkle".  It is, in fact, a "star", only it's very small and it's yellow, and not blue, white, nor red (all of which are much, much bigger than our "Sun").  And we aren't out in space, looking back at the solar system, in order to see our "star", the "Sun", as such---a star!

Light from a star really doesn't flicker, nor sparkle, because that's just an illusion produced by our atmosphere.  But anyway, the "light" produced by another star does seem to flicker and sparkle from our point of view.    

I'm not smart (for I'm really not a scientist) enough to know just how far away we would have to be in order to see our "star", the "Sun", as such, a star.  But I'm sure it would have to be pretty far away.

Answer 8

The sun probaby does flicker, just a little though, not from nothing to shining again, but just like, shinig a bit brighter.

if it were to flicker off/on we would have many Ice ages.

there are explosions though :3

(the sun is a bang, Un! >D)

Answer 9

The sun doesn't flicker because it is very close to the earth compared to other stars.  The sun is about 500 light seconds away from earth and the next nearest star is 4.5 light years away.  These distance stars flicker because not much light from these stars reach earth and the light that does is constantly being reflected and refracted around by turbulance in the earth's upper atmosphere.  So the stars don't actually flicker.  Hope this helps answer your question.

Answer 10

Stars do not actually sparkle. The misconception comes from one of two things: either an object passes in front of the star, or gravity from an object passing near the [course of the light] pulls the light away from our eyes.

Answer 11

Becasue of the distance, you moron! And to be more correct, the Sun is a star because not all the stars are like the Sun!

Answer 12

As it turns out, the stars don’t really flicker/sparkle. This is an effect of our atmosphere. In space, the stars would appear as steady pinpoints. Turbulence in the atmosphere is largely responsible for the twinkling effect, so the steadier the atmosphere, the less the stars seem to twinkle and sparkle, and the more unsteady the atmosphere, the more the stars seem to twinkle and sparkle. Of course, that very turbulence also distorts the view for professional astronomers or for amateur astrophotographers, so while the twinkling might be pretty, serious astronomers hate to see twinkling stars.