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Keywords: Stonehenge, solstice, sunrise
![Северные летние сумерки](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/06/20/0001745012/IMG_1088_resize1024.preview.jpg)
18.06.2021
Nights grow shorter and days grow longer as the summer solstice approaches in the north. Usually seen at high latitudes in summer months, noctilucent or night shining clouds begin to make their appearance. Drifting...
![Солнцестояние: восходы Солнца в течение года](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/12/21/0001713821/SunRiseYear_Abbadi_960.preview.jpg)
20.12.2020
Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. As the months change, the direction toward the rising Sun changes, too. The featured image shows the direction of sunrise every month during 2019 as seen from near the city of Amman, Jordan.
![Тени сентябрьского рассвета](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/09/24/0001849797/DSCF4968_PS_Lioce-1024.preview.jpg)
23.09.2022
The defining astronomical moment for this September's equinox was on Friday, September 23, 2022 at 01:03 UTC, when the Sun crossed the celestial equator moving south in its yearly journey through planet Earth's sky.
![От солнцестояния до солнцестояния: солярография](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2019/12/21/0001581218/solarcanMatrixSolstice_5.preview.jpg)
20.12.2019
The 2019 December Solstice, on the first day of winter in planet Earth's northern hemisphere and summer in the south, is at 4:19 Universal Time December 22. That's December 21 for North America, though. Celebrate with a timelapse animation of the Sun's seasonal progression through the sky.
![Солнечные часы показывают солнцестояние](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/06/21/0001384792/solsticedial_mari_960.preview.jpg)
20.06.2017
What day is it? If the day -- and time -- are right, this sundial will tell you: SOLSTICE. Only then will our Sun be located just right for sunlight to stream through openings and spell out the term for the longest and shortest days of the year. But this will happen today (and again in December).
![Соединение перед солнцестоянием над Будапештом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/06/23/0001384968/_MG_5896Soponyai_sss1024.preview.jpg)
22.06.2017
Before a solstice Sun rose on June 21, brilliant Venus and an old crescent Moon posed together over Budapest, Hungary for this predawn skyscape. In the foreground the view looks across the Danube river from Buda to Pest toward the dome and peaks of the Hungarian Parliament building.
![Однажды в канун солнцестояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2017/01/07/0001374114/2016_12_20_Towards_Venus_LP_1024px.preview.jpg)
22.12.2016
Once upon a solstice eve a little prince gazed across a frozen little planet at the edge of a large galaxy. The little planet was planet Earth of course, seen in this horizon to horizon, nadir to zenith projection, a digitally stitched mosaic from the shores of the Sec reservoir in the Czech Republic.
![Аналемма над Тайбэем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2022/06/21/0001838646/AnalemmaTaipei_Lee_1080.preview.jpg)
20.06.2022
Does the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day? No. A better and more visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite of images taken at the same time and from the same place over the course of a year.
![Кольца и времена года Сатурна](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/06/21/0001337856/saturn2004to2015_peach_960.preview.jpg)
20.06.2015
On Saturn, the rings tell you the season. On Earth, today marks a solstice, the time when the Earth's spin axis tilts directly toward the Sun. On Earth's northern hemisphere, today is the Summer Solstice, the day of maximum daylight.
![Следы Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/12/21/0001373057/sun.preview.jpg)
20.12.2016
This year the December Solstice is today, December 21, at 10:44 UT, the first day of winter in the north and summer in the south. To celebrate, watch this amazing timelapse video tracing the Sun's apparent movement over an entire year from Hungary.
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