The world is on a date with two important events next Monday

2020-12-19 2020-12-19T10:36:33Z
رنا السيلاوي
رنا السيلاوي
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Weather of Arabia - On an exceptional day, the world will witness two important astronomical events next Monday, one of them is rare and the other begins with it a new season and the beginning of a shift in the direction of the sun's path.

The first event - is that the globe will witness on Monday, December 21 at 01:02 pm Mecca time on the day of the solstice , which marks the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere, and the beginning of the summer season in the southern hemisphere, where The two hemispheres of the Earth exchange places to receive sunlight. On this day, the north pole of the earth is tilted away from the sun, and the sun reaches its apparent path in the earth's sky to the farthest point in the south, so that its rays perpendicular to the Tropic of Capricorn, and this day is shortened in the areas north of The equator of the Earth, and the night is longer than 12 hours, and the opposite happens in the southern hemisphere, where the south pole of the earth is tilted towards the sun, and the sun reaches its apparent path in the earth's sky to the northernmost point, so that its rays perpendicular to the Tropic of Cancer, and the day is long Today, in areas south of the Earth's equator, the night is shorter than 12 hours.

The second event is the greatest conjunction between the two largest planets in our solar system, Saturn and Jupiter

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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