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astronomical technique > radio astronomy > interplanetary scintillation
astronomical technique > astronomical optics > interplanetary scintillation

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interplanetary scintillation  

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  • In astronomy, interplanetary scintillation refers to random fluctuations in the intensity of radio waves of celestial origin, on the timescale of a few seconds. It is analogous to the twinkling one sees looking at stars in the sky at night, but in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum rather than the visible one. Interplanetary scintillation is the result of radio waves traveling through fluctuations in the density of the electron and protons that make up the solar wind. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_scintillation)

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