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Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace
& Giuseppe De Donö
Explanation:
Does the Sun follow the same path every day?
No.
The Sun's path changes during the year, tracing a longer route during the summer
than the winter.
Pictured here, the
Sun's arc was captured from noon to sunset on three days,
from highest in the sky to lowest:
summer solstice,
equinox, and
winter solstice.
The images were taken near
Gatto Corvino Village in
Sicily,
Italy in 2020 and 2021.
The path and time the
Sun spends in the sky
is more important in
determining the season than
how close the Earth is to the
Sun.
In fact, the
Earth is closest to the Sun in January, during northern winter.
Today is a
solstice, so
today
the Sun is taking its longest path of the year across the sky in Earth's
northern hemisphere,
but the shortest path in the
southern hemisphere.
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