Winter Solstice (For Northern Folk)
"Shall we dance or something to celebrate?" Asked healing pixie, Seanan, in an email today…and in doing so kindly highlighted that:
Today is the shortest day and longest night of the year
- ie when one hemisphere of the earth, in this case, the Northern one, is the furthest away from the sun in its orbit.
In a quick spot of reading I just found a fun fact:
"Through an interesting coincidence in the Earth’s orbit, the northern hemisphere’s winter occurs roughly when the sun is actually closest to the earth"
Quite a little ‘common sense’ challenger.
Sprinkles of starshine and moondance fellow journeymen!
PS if you are so inclined to continue chasing: NASA’s daily image has a great little article and photo
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