Summer Solstice 2024:
21st June has been marked as the day of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere of the world.
- The summer solstice is celebrated as the beginning of summer, or midsummer when one of Earth’s poles is at its maximum tilt towards the sun.
- The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year, when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky.
- During the solstice, the Earth’s axis (around which the planet spins, completing one turn each day) is tilted in a way that the North Pole is tipped towards the sun and the South Pole is away from it.
- Typically, this imaginary axis passes right through the middle of the Earth from top to bottom and is always tilted at 23.5 degrees with respect to the sun.
- At the Arctic Circle(66°33′ north latitude), the sun never sets during the solstice.
- The amount of light received by a specific area in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer solstice depends on the latitudinal location of the place.
