Happy First Day of Winter Solstice!
Today is officially the shortest day of the year if you live in the Northern Hemisphere. What causes our planet’s shift in seasons? Its tilt. Today, Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is at its most-tilted away from the Sun. The exact time of the solstice is at 09:21 Universal Time on December 21 (04:21 am Eastern Standard Time on December 21). But while the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing the shortest day and longest night of the year, those in the Southern Hemisphere enjoy the opposite: the longest day and shortest night of 2024!
Let NASA explain it to you as well
The other interesting phenomenon is all of the upcoming winter festivities from cultural around the world to celebrate the start of the new season. Cultural Traditions always fascinate me, so hope you find it interesting as well.
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