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    7 days ago

    No, the common wisdom is definitely that stars twinkle and planets do not.

    Even more so, some of the recent videos of Sirius show wild fluctuations in color because stars are active plasma with light passing through many interstellar structures while planets are far more stable, they are reflective only, and there’s very little between us and them.