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No, they’re not actually changing their emitted light levels. The apparent variation is just an atmospheric phenomenon called stellar scintillation, caused by the light passing through turbulent layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. Some stars do actually fluctuate in their EM intensity, though (like pulsars). Read more here.
