On a clear sky night we usually see thousands of white tiny dots.They are distant stars ,galaxies or rubble ?

of our solar system?


And why they appear to be blinking continuously?On a clear sky night we usually see thousands of white tiny dots.They are distant stars ,galaxies or rubble ?
The tiny white blinking dots we see in the night sky are stars. These are actually suns, often much bigger than our sun. But because they are so far away they appear as pinpoints and their distance can only really be expressed as the time it takes their light to reach us (e.g. Alpha Centauri our nearest neighbour is 4.37 light years away).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centa鈥?/a>





Our atmosphere causes the ';twinkling'; of the stars:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillati鈥?/a>





The so called ';fixed stars'; which do not twinkle are actually the other visible planets in our solar system; Mars, Venus (Morning Star), Mercury (the Evening Star), Jupiter and Saturn.





Like the planets the ';rubble'; in the solar system does not have its own light but reflects that of the sun. The biggest chunk is of course the Moon that reflects the suns light in its various phases throughout the lunar month.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_t鈥?/a>





Very few other galaxies can be seen with the naked eye, One that can, is the Andromeda (2.5 million light years away) that appears as a faint smudge in the constellation of Andromeda.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_G鈥?/a>On a clear sky night we usually see thousands of white tiny dots.They are distant stars ,galaxies or rubble ?
There is only one star in the solar system, that is the sun. So it cant be the other stars in the solar system, because people dont seem to see sun in nights, very often. However, we could be looking at stars from our galaxy, the milky way. We could also be looking at the stars from our other galaxies and so on.





Stars twinkle (or blink continously), not because of any of their properties, but the property of earth's atmosphere. The atmosphere refracts, (or bends) light... Sometimes, this refraction is more, and sometime its less, as it goes by a moment in and a moment out due to atmospheric conditions... As stars are point sized source of light, this fluctuation in the refractive index(how much a medium refracts light) is clearly visible, in form of their twinkling appearance.
Almost all are distant stars. A few may be planets, and a couple may be galaxies. They twinkle (the usual description for ';blink consistently';) because of turbulence in our Earth's atmosphere.
Are you in Alaska? Cause if you are you are probably seeing the bright shiny lights of Russia.
All of the above and because clouds pass over them
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