The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88 percent of Earth's people who live in the Northern Hemisphere.

Earth's oceans and atmosphere act like heat sinks, absorbing and reradiating the sun's rays over time. Even though the planet absorbs a lot of sunlight on the summer solstice, it takes several ...

Photographers have taken photos of the annular ... between the Earth and the Sun, leaving just a thin ring of light visible. This eclipse coincided with the summer solstice - the northern ...

On the day of the summer solstice, its climb stops ... is oriented with respect to the solar system and the Sun. (princessdlaf/Getty Images) Globes are nearly always tilted to one side, to ...

The summer solstice happens when the angle of tilt towards the sun is at its greatest ... Entry You could display the picture of Stonehenge and play your chosen music, perhaps a song about ...

Santa Barbara Summer Solstice season is off to a start, with local artists submitting art for this year's poster and T-shirt ...

Two things drive this all-important seasonal shuffle: Earth's tilted axis and the planet's orbit around the sun. How the summer solstice works The summer solstice is the point when the sun will ...

For the southern hemisphere, it signifies the opposite: shortening days and the dawning of summer. To illustrate what's going on with the solstice ... relative to the sun. The axis around which ...

Beginning Dec. 14, 4:20 p.m. sunsets come back in the picture ... while their summer solstice happens in December. Each day, the sun traces a path across the sky, rising in the east and setting ...

The beginning of the summer season in the northern hemisphere (and winter in the southern hemisphere) is an astronomical event—and it happens this week. It’s best celebrated at sunrise—as is ...

In the northern hemisphere, it will be the shortest day of the year, and in the southern hemisphere, which will be celebrating the summer solstice ... on the solstice, the sun seems to rise ...

For northern hemisphere dwellers, the 2024 summer solstice occurs on Thursday 20 June at 21:51 BST (20:51 GMT). This is the moment at which the sun will be at its highest position in the sky ...