winter solstice

Winter is officially here. Belen De Leon explains the Winter Solstice. 

Tuesday, Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in terms of combined sunlight and the official beginning of the winter season.

Regardless of what the weather feels like, winter solstice started Monday at 2:02 a.m. It’s an astronomical event caused by the Earth‘s tilt on its axis and its motion in orbit around the sun.

Regardless of what the weather feels like, Winter Solstice started Monday at 2:02 a.m. Belen De Leon sheds some light on the subject of our ‘shortest day.”

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky to create a single “Christmas star” Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the two largest planets in our solar system aren’t particularly rare. Jupiter passes its neighbor Saturn in their respective laps around the sun every 20...

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