The June solstice marks the official beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
The June solstice doesn’t always occur on the same day — currently shifting between June 20, 21, and 22. Its timing is based on when the sun reaches its northernmost point from the celestial equator. Technically, there are two starts to summer: meteorological and astronomical.
But astronomically, the first day of summer is considered to be when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky during the summer solstice . FILE IMAGE - People enter the closed site at Stonehenge on June 21, 2021, in Amesbury, United Kingdom. "The sarsen stones, put up in at the center of the site in about 2500 BC, were carefully aligned to line up with the movements of the sun," English Heritage explained. "The whole layout of Stonehenge is therefore positioned in relation to the solstices, or the extreme limits of the sun’s movement."FILE IMAGE - A girl wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes dances near a fire during the summer solstice celebrations in Pyrohiv, near Kyiv, on July 6, 2021.
In ancient China, the summer solstice was observed to celebrate the Earth, femininity, and the "yin" forces.
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