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Planets look like bright stars when they are viewed from Earth.

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Planets can be confused with stars often because many do look like bright stars except they don't twinkle. Stars twinkle and planets don't though the occasional twinkle might be seen from mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and mercury.

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Answer: True

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Note: Planets do not make their own light, but not stars do . Our sun is an example ( the sun is a star — the closest star to Earth).

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