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Keywords: Stonehenge, solstice, sunrise
![Луна и Венера над Швейцарией](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/02/02/0001249588/moonvenus_kaplan_900.preview.jpg)
2.02.2011
Sometimes a morning sky can be a combination of serene and surreal. Such a sky perhaps existed before sunrise this past Sunday as viewed from a snowy slope in eastern Switzerland. Quiet clouds blanket the above scene, lit from beneath by lights from the village of TrЭbbach.
![Восход планеты в другом мире](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/04/11/0001251083/otherworldrise_arn_900.preview.jpg)
11.04.2011
What would a sunrise look like on another world? So far, humanity has only recorded sunrises on Mars and Earth, but it is fun to wonder what they would look like on planets known and yet unknown.
![Тирренское море и небо в день солнцестояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2007/12/23/0001225266/winter_solstice_pivato.preview.jpg)
22.12.2007
Today the Solstice occurs at 0608 Universal Time, the Sun reaching its southernmost declination in planet Earth's sky. Of course, the December Solstice marks the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the south.
![Ореол вокруг Солнца во время Зимнего солнцестояния](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/06/0001239421/solsticehalo_appleton_big.preview.jpg)
14.01.2002
Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a large lens. In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. As water freezes in the upper atmosphere, small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals might be formed.
![Тройной восход Солнца над Гданьской бухтой](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/04/0001235723/triplesunrise_diacon.preview.jpg)
4.08.2009
How can the same Sun rise three times? Last month on Friday, 2009 July 10, a spectacular triple sunrise was photographed at about 4:30 am over Gdansk Bay in Gdansk, Poland. Clearly, our Sun rises only once. Some optical effect is creating at least two mirages of the Sun -- but which effect?
![Леониды на восходе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163952/leosun_wpacholka_big.preview.jpg)
17.11.2000
Such beautiful things begin as grains of sand. Locked in an oyster a granule grows into an iridescent pearl, lustrous and lovely to behold. While hurtling through the atmosphere at 70 kilometers per second, a cosmic sand grain becomes an awe-inspiring meteor, its transient beauty displayed for any who care to watch.
![Солнечная дорожка в кратере Гесиода](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2010/03/28/0001244297/HesiodusSunriseRay_seipC900.preview.jpg)
27.03.2010
Stark shadows of mountains and crater walls stand out along the lunar terminator, or shadow line between night and day, in this telescopic image. Of course, if viewed from the lunar surface near the terminator line, the Sun would be rising and still close to the lunar horizon.
![Виды Солнца с аппарата "Стерео-А"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/12/22/0001218914/sun4_stereoahead_cc720.preview.jpg)
22.12.2006
On December 22nd, at 0022 Universal Time the Sun reached its southernmost point in Earth's sky marking the final season change for the year 2006. In celebration of the Solstice, consider these images of the Sun from an extreme ultraviolet telescope onboard the Stereo Ahead spacecraft.
![Солярография: от солнцестояния к солнцестоянию](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2009/08/04/0001235724/solsolargraph_zapior850.preview.jpg)
26.06.2009
This six month long exposure compresses the time from solstice to solstice (~ December 21, 2008 to June 20, 2009) into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the unconventional picture was recorded with a pinhole camera made from an aluminum can lined with a piece of photographic paper.
![Солнцестояние и затмение сезона](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2000/12/21/0001163964/eclipse_gauthier_c.preview.jpg)
21.12.2000
Today the Sun reaches its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky at 13:37 UT. This celestial event is known as a solstice, marking the beginning of Summer in the Southern Hemisphere and Winter in the North.
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