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“june solstice”
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“northern solstice”
“estival solstice”
“summer solstice*
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*the june solstice occurs when a planet’s ‘rotational axis’ (in either ‘northern’ or ‘southern’ hemispheres), is ‘most inclined’ toward the ‘star’ that it orbits*
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(earth’s ‘maximum axial tilt’ toward the ‘sun’ is 23° 26′)
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(this happens twice each year (once in each ‘hemisphere’), at which times the ‘sun’ reaches its highest position in the sky as seen from the ‘north’ or the ‘south’ pole)
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(the ‘summer solstice’ (or ‘aestival solstice’) occurs during a hemisphere’s ‘summer’)
(this is the ‘northern solstice’ in the ‘northern hemisphere’ and the ‘southern solstice’ in the ‘southern hemisphere’)
(depending on the ‘shift’ of the ‘calendar’, the ‘summer solstice’ occurs some time between ‘june 20’ and ‘june 22’ in the ‘northern hemisphere’ and between ‘december 20’ and ‘december 23’ each year in the ‘southern hemisphere’)
(the same ‘dates’ in the opposite ‘hemisphere’ are referred to as the “winter solstice”)
(when on a ‘geographic pole’, the ‘sun’ reaches its greatest ‘height’ (the moment of ‘solstice’), it can be ‘noon’ only along that ‘longitude’ which at that ‘moment’ lies in the ‘direction’ of the ‘sun’ from the ‘pole’)
(‘noon’ meaning ‘midday’)
(‘the ’12 hour mark’ (of a 24-hour day))
(for other ‘longitudes’, it is not ‘noon’)
(‘noon’ has either ‘passed’ or has ‘yet to come’)
(hence the notion of a ‘solstice day’ is useful)
(the term is colloquially used like midsummer to refer to the ‘day’ on which solstice occurs)
(as opposed to the (infinitely small) ‘moment’)
(the ‘summer solstice day’ has the longest period of ‘daylight’ – except in the ‘polar regions’, where ‘daylight’ is ‘continuous’, from ‘a few days’ to ‘6 months’ around the ‘summer solstice’)
(‘2016′ was the first time in nearly ’70 years’ that a ‘full moon’ and the ‘summer solstice’ concur on the same ‘day’)
(the 2016 summer solstice’s ‘full moon’ will rise just as the ‘sun’ sets)
(the moment of the ‘full moon’ is early ‘monday’ on ‘june 20’)
(worldwide, ‘interpretation’ of the ‘event’ has varied among ‘cultures’, but most recognize the event in some way with holidays, festivals, and rituals around that time with themes of religion or fertility)
(who were the first humans (or ‘living things’) that noticed the ‘solstice’ and attempted to explain it?)
(‘ancient greek astronomers’)
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(“solstice” is derived from the ‘latin’ words sol (‘sun’) and sistere (“to stand still”))
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