The images were obtained by Tony Phillips on June 6 using an Astrovid 2000 CCD video camera. The animation consists of 10 video frames each separated in time by 67 milliseconds. Neither stars nor planets twinkle as seen from outer space, but the view from Earth's surface is a different matter. Tiny irregularities in the density and temperature of the air above us drift in front of stars and planets as we view them through the atmosphere. When a beam of starlight travels through the atmosphere, these irregularities disturb the beam making it dance back and forth slightly.
Stars are so far away that they look like unresolved points of light even in large telescopes.
Planets, on the other hand, are relatively nearby. They look like disks even in small telescopes. Planets don't twinkle because the scintillation of light from one side of the disk mixes with scintillation from other parts of the disk, and the disturbances cancel out. The light from planets arrives as a steady stream, not a babbling brook. It's all because planets appear much, much bigger than stars as seen from Earth.