Whydoes snowflakes look like little stars?
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Here is a website for you to look at:\n\nhttp://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/primer/primer.htm
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Frosty is right, Otisabi is wrong. The round shape of the atmosphere bends the light. You also get a reddish taint to the moons colour when it's close to the horizon. This is due to the red part of the light reflected from the moon hitting your eye, while the rest is into space. If you've ever looked into a round fishbowl you'll see how it distorts light to make things look larger.
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Stars seem to "twinkle " because of heat waves in the atmosphere .  They twinkle less in cold weather than in warm .
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For When You Open Your Eyes A New Twinkle Is Highlighted Within Our Cosmos, So For ME To Percieve Those Sparkley Lights, I Wait For You Too Open Them Eyes\n\nSo Im Guessing A Lot Of Glactic Dust Is Twinkling As You Blink And Read This - I Thank You For The Twinkle\n\nAlien Love
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A star produces it's own light, a planet does not, it merely reflects the light of the star. Because a star producing it's own light, it will glow brightly, dim, then glow again........this is the twinkling effect, much like the flame from a match, or any burning fire. :)
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they say no two snowflakes are alike, but they are usually hexagonal in shape, although some can be three sided, 12 sided, or just plain irregular\n\nfor more info into how many shapes check:
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The bright ring is called a 'halo'\n\nIt's a fairly common sight and occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals cover much of the sky. Each ice crystal acts like a miniature lens. Because most of the crystals have a similar elongated hexagonal shape, light entering one crystal face and exiting through the opposing face refracts 22 degrees, which corresponds to the radius of the Moon Halo.\n\nSee a nice picture of one here:\nhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000515.html
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Perhaps they just looked like clouds?  Have a read...\n\n"The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size."\n\n//
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Try red, white and blue stars!  That would be cute.
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it is the difference in brightness between the stars and any astronaut, cosmonaut, space shuttle, or international space station.  the stars are just too dim.  a much longer exposure time is needed to photograph dimmer objects.  ask someone who knows about photography.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography
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Stars are like our Sun. Not comets at all. Comets are dirty, big snowballs that have no light at all. The twinkling comes from heat radiating from earth which makes the light spectrum shift in different colours. Symbols that represent something doesn't often look like the original. Take the symbol for a heart for example. But it's easy! :) Try to draw a immensly huge boiling, burning piece of gas that throws tons of particles out from it in lightning speed and see if anyone understands what you drew. Now try to make it into a character that you can type on a keyboard :)
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Most--not all--shooting stars (meteors) are about the size of a grain of sand. Most of these specks are left-over material from comets that have passed in and out of the inner solar system.\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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It's just an assumption...\n\ncoz it looks like a sphere... like how the moon looks round...\n\nBut can u be sure!!!
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It is traditionally said that there are an infinite number of polymorphs for snow flakes.  They are all radially symmetrical and hexagonal though.
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Although sightings of these colorful events have been documented in the past, this phenomena has come to the front of geophysical interest in recent times. Red sprites typically extend above the cloud tops up to heights of nearly 95 km. After several imaging campaigns in the central United States during1993 and 1994, there has been an increased demand to explain these naturally-occurring colorful flashes. The VLF group is actively pursuing scientific explanations along with our colleagues in the field. \n\nmore info in\nhttp://www-star.stanford.edu/~vlf/Red_Sprite/
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You mean white, right? Snow reflects light and light's prism makes white, so when the snowflakes change shape into water, they no longer reflect or refract.
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an updraft of cold air freezes water droplets into crystle. All of them are 6 sided, and EVERY ONE of them is different - amazing eh.\n\nyou can go to http://snowflakebentley.com/snowflakes.htm for cool pics and \nhttp://www.kidzworld.com/site/p1587.htm\nto see how snow is formed.