Jumping Starlight
'Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are,' says the song by Jane Taylor. But stars don’t really twinkle; their light reaches the earth in a steady way. Why then do we see them flickering around in the sky? The answer is in the atmosphere.
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