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Old November 19th 03, 03:55 PM
Bill Nunnelee
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We would need a location and time to say for sure, but it's probably Sirius.
The star itself isn't intrinsically multi-colored though. Its light is
being briefly broken into its component wavelengths as it passes through
turbulence in our atmosphere. Bright stars often display this seemingly
more radical form of twinkling when near the horizon.


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I noticed a rainbow colored star in the eastern sky tonight, when I

observed
it with binoculars it seems to radiate many colors of light. What is it?!?
I've never seen anything like it.