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On the summer solstice, when the northern tilt is closest to the sun, we have the longest day, usually June 20 or 21. ... The "arrival of winter," or Dong Zhi, is a Chinese festival where family ...
It has already swept past the Sun 21 times, getting ever nearer, but the Christmas Eve visit is record-breaking. At its closest approach, the probe is 3.8 million miles (6.2 million km) from our ...
Once more, the Sun will received renewed attention at the end of 2024 when NASA's Parker Solar Probe "kissed" the surface of the Sun, becoming closer than any other human-made object before.
In Korea, Chuseok is a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday celebrated around the Autumn Equinox. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, often near the autumnal equinox day, and is an official holiday in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and in many countries with a significant Chinese minority ...
Macrobius wrote in the fourth century that the Sun appears small at the winter solstice, and on this shortest day, the Egyptians brought a child Sun god out of a shrine. [16] In his Panarion , also from the fourth century, Epiphanius of Salamis wrote that the winter solstice was celebrated on 25 December in Alexandria as the Kikellia .
A NASA probe ventured closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history on Christmas Eve — and it whirled by at astounding speeds that also made it the fastest thing ever made by humans. Just ...
Closer to the Sun may refer to: Closer to the Sun (Slightly Stoopid album), 2005; Closer to the Sun (Guy Sebastian album), 2006; See also.
Earth reached its closest point to the sun Tuesday at 1:52 a.m. EST, a configuration known as perihelion. Though mostly imperceptible, the planet is now roughly 3 million miles closer to the sun ...