Which of the following is NOT a result of the Earth’s precession?the Earth wobbles (like a spinning top) with a period of 26,000 yearsthe stars twinkle when seen from the surface of planet Earththe signs of the zodiac most astrologers use are no longer in accord with the constellations in which the Sun is currently found over the course of the yearPolaris will no longer be the North Star in several thousand yearswhere the Earth’s axis points in the sky changes over the centuries and millennia
the stars twinkle when seen from the surface of planet Earth
The answer is “the stars twinkle when seen from the surface of planet Earth”. The twinkling of stars is not caused by the Earth’s precession, but by the turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere. As light passes through the atmosphere, it is refracted or bent in different directions, causing the stars to appear to twinkle or scintillate. This effect can be minimized by observing the stars from space, or from high-altitude observatories above much of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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