title: Scintillation
text: # Scintillation
  
  Scintillation can refer to:
  
  * Scintillation (astronomy), atmospheric effects which influence astronomical observations
  * Interplanetary scintillation, fluctuations of radio waves caused by the solar wind
  * Scintillation (physics), a flash of light produced in certain materials when they absorb ionizing radiation
  * Scintillation (radar), an apparent rapid target displacement occurring on radar displays
  * Scintillation (medicine), a rapidly oscillating pattern of visual distortions, often associated with migraine aura
  * Scintillation counter, a device that measures ionizing radiation
  * Scintillating grid illusion, an image in which compounded color contrasts cause an optical illusion of visual artifacts
  