Stonehenge in Winter
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Description: Article discussing the history of this monument and casting doubts on the theory that it is aligned to the midsummer sunrise.
size>color>color> Harrison's scientific work. In midsummer, the night sky in England never gets really dark. Although we are not far enough north for the sun to be above the horizon at midnight in the middle of summer, it never really sets. Sunset turns into sunrise. The midsummer solstice, about June 21st, is when the days in the northern hemisphere are the longest. This is caused by the Earth having a list of about 23.5 degrees from the vertical. On June 21st, the North Pole is pointing towards the Sun, so the northern hemisphere is warmer. On December 21st the South Pole is pointing towards the Sun, so it is winter in the north and summer in the south. The Earth is actually farther from the Sun in July than in January, but this makes less difference than the direction of tilt.
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