with the arrival of the summer solstice. So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of ...

The summer solstice is almost here. The highly-anticipated event will take place at 10:58 a.m. ET on Wednesday 21st of June. For people who live in the northern hemisphere, it will be the longest ...

Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere will greet summertime with the summer solstice ... came from pagan celebrations of the solstice, such as Christmas trees and wreaths, which originated from ...

From then onwards the days become increasingly long leading up to the Summer Solstice, or the June Solstice, and the longest day of the year. During the day, the Northern Hemisphere will have ...

Jānis is a Latvian pagan deity, and he’s celebrated at the summer solstice in Riga in Latvia ... is created to represent the cosmos, and a tree is chopped down and raised to create a connection ...

For the southern hemisphere, it signifies the opposite: shortening days and the dawning of summer. To illustrate what's going on with the solstice, Dr. James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at ...

Get somewhere rural and look southeast after dark! Tuesday, June 21, 2022: Summer Solstice, five naked-eye planets and a Last Quarter Moon Today it’s the June solstice—summer solstice in the ...

That’s 8 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the summer solstice! But that’s nothing ... The druid priests would cut mistletoe that grew on oak trees and give it as a blessing.