The First Day of Spring 2025 is Thursday, March 20 at 5:01 a.m. EDT. In the Northern Hemisphere, the first day of Spring is an astronomical event in which the Sun shines directly on the equator causing nearly equal lengths of day and night. The first day of Spring is technically called the Vernal Equinox …
Winter begins on December 20 during the Winter Solstice when the North Pole is tilted the farthest from the Sun. This will be the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In many ancient cultures, the winter solstice symbolized the “rebirth of the Sun” as days began to lengthen Siberian …
The first day of Fall, aka the Autumn Equinox, is on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 8:44 A.M. EDT in the Northern Hemisphere. The equinox is special because this is when the Sun is positioned in the sky so that there is equal day and night—each lasting for 12 hours. After this, the days …
Summer begins on the Summer Solstice when the Earth is tilted the closest to the Sun The summer solstice is Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM EDT – 2051 UTC. It’s the longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere and the first official day of summer. According to Weather.gov, the summer solstice occurs at the …
This wall of plasma is roughly 67,000 miles high-large enough to fit several planets the size of Earth. While this looks like it could be a preview of the new season of Stranger Things, it is a time-lapse composite of real image sets from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The images are from a coronal mass …