Today is the longest day of the year when the sun rises at 05.07 minutes and sets to 20.17, so 15 hours, 9 minutes and 48 seconds are days.
In different places, the length of the day changes. It depends on where you live. Alaska has almost 24 hours of sunlight, the solstice day. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere falls every year, depending on the location, from June 20 to June 22 and is the day when the Sun is at the highest point, before the North Hemisphere.
In the Southern Hemisphere this occurs on December 20 to 22, when the Northern Hemisphere experiences the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year.
Although the summer season is in the first month, after 21 June, the days, even longer than the night, begin to be shortened even though insignificantly.
What are the things you did not know about June 21?
1. June 21 is the longest day of the year and coincides exactly with the so-called "Summer Solstice". The sun today was born at 4:39 and sets at 21:28 minutes.
2. In the northern hemisphere, the solstice almost always falls on June 21st. The summer solstice can take place between June 20 and 22. In 2016, the solstice will occur on 20th.
3. From the astronomical point of view, this means that the Sun, in its movement, reaches the maximum northern distance from Ecuador.
4. The solstic word comes from the Latin word "solstitium" which means the sun has stopped.
5. The common name of this phenomenon is used among the pagans, "Litha".
6. On this day, hundreds of pagans, but others gather in Stonehenge to see the sunrise in the morning.
7. The great heat does not come from the fact that Earth is closer to the Sun. Suffice it to think that we are exactly the opposite, while the planet is at a maximum distance from its star.
8. Earth-Sun distance has nothing to do with seasons. These are actually affected by landing bends at 23.5 degrees.
9. It should also be clarified that June 21 does not correspond to the hottest day of the year.
10. It is called the thermostation phenomenon, for which the hottest period is set around the end of July for the fault of the earth's atmosphere.
