The planets are much closer to earth,and thus seen as extended souces. If we conider a planet a large no. Of point -sized souces of light,the total variation in the amount of light entering our eye from all the individual point -sized sources will average out to zero, thereby nulliyfing the twinkling effect.
The planets are much closer to the earth, and are thus seen as extended sources. If we consider a planet as a collection of a large number of point-sized sources of light, the total variation in the amount of light entering our eye from all the individual point-sized sources will average out to zero, thereby nullifying the twinkling effect. Hence, the planets do not twinkle