{"id":49942,"date":"2016-08-15T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=49942"},"modified":"2019-10-01T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:56:13","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why Does That Little Star Twinkle Twinkle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/wish-upon-a-star-diamond-necklace?source=blog_uk_081516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49950 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wish-Upon-A-Star-Diamond-Necklace.jpg\" alt=\"Wish Upon A Star Diamond Necklace | UncommonGoods\" width=\"650\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cTwinkle Twinkle Little Star\u201d got it all wrong. Stars, it turns out, simply sit pretty and quite still (for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">burning balls of plasma<\/a>, that is) above Earth\u2019s atmosphere. When their light passes through the atmosphere, however, it goes through multiple layers of varying densities. Those layers bounce the light around like a pinball machine, making it change color and density. So by the time the light reaches our eyes, it appears to scintillate. This sparkly atmospheric trick is especially strong when stars are on the horizon line. One particularly bright star, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sirius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sirius<\/a>, \u201ctwinkles\u201d so much in fact, that\u2019s it\u2019s frequently reported as a UFO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/wish-upon-a-star-diamond-necklace?source=blog_uk_081516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wish Upon A Star Diamond Necklace<\/a> | $148.00<\/p>\n<p>Love learning about stars? <a href=\"https:\/\/nightskypix.com\/what-is-the-milky-way\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the magic of the Milky Way here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwinkle Twinkle Little Star\u201d got it all wrong. Stars, it turns out, simply sit pretty and quite still (for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":49950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49942"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73313,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49942\/revisions\/73313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}