Solstice

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  Symbol for solstices and equinoxes

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  Sunlight reaching the earth during summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere)

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  Same image in Polish

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  Same image in Dutch

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  Sunlight reaching the earth during winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere)

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  Same image in Polish

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  Same image in French

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  Images showing reflected sunlight at winter and summer solstices

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  Path of the Sun on the sky during solstices and equinoxes at 43° N.

Summer solstice

en: Summer solstice is the longest day of the year. It takes place on June 21/22 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21/21 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is celebrated as a festival several places.

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  Solstice fire in Montana

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  Solstice night at Stonehenge

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  Sunrise after summer solstice in Stonehenge

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  Arcu di l'Ursini of Carticasi, Corsica

Winter solstice

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  Burning sun wheel at Yule, winter solstice

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  Sunrise between the stones at Stonehenge on the Winter Solstice in the mid 1980s.

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  2004 winter solstice viewed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California, USA.

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  Sunrise at Winter Solstice (December 21, 2006 at 8 a.m.) as viewed through the mysterious doorway half way up Maiden Tower, Baku

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  Jólablót (Yule Sacrifice) on Winter Solstice 2009. Contemporary Icelandic pagans, members of Ásatrúarfélagið, stand in a circle around a ceremonial fire as they prepare to conduct a religious ceremony.

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  A cold Winter solstice dawn over Winksley, 1998.

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  Winter solstice dawn over Llanrug

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  First rays of the rising winter solstice sun light up the countryside