This is the shortest day of the year, and it means it has the fewest hours of daylight. The summer solstice happens when the angle of tilt towards the sun is at its greatest, and so we have the ...

Then this could be the best day of the year ... Eve celebration in Sweden and Ivan Kupala Night in parts of Eastern Europe. The mirror image of the winter solstice, the summer solstice is ...

For people who live in the northern hemisphere, it will be the longest day ... hours later, it will be the June solstice. At that point, the sun's most direct rays reach the Tropic of Cancer ...

Anyone north of that imaginary line during northern summer has a direct line of sight to the Sun 24 hours a day. Solstices and equinoxes track precise astronomical moments. Each solstice is when ...