Solstice

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  Symbol for solstices and equinoxes
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  Sunlight reaching the earth during summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
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  Same image in Polish
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  Same image in Dutch
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  Sunlight reaching the earth during winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
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  Same image in Polish
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  Same image in French
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  Same image in Irish
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  Images showing reflected sunlight at winter and summer solstices
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  Path of the Sun on the sky during solstices and equinoxes at 43° N.

Summer solstice

English: Summer solstice is the longest day of the year. It takes place on June 21/22 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21/22 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is celebrated as a festival several places.

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  Solstice fire in Montana
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  Solstice night at Stonehenge
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  Sunrise after summer solstice in Stonehenge
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  Arcu di l'Ursini of Carticasi, Corsica
  21 June 2008
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  Archaeoastronomy: Carticasi shining line toward solstice sunrise.
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  A break in the haze causes a brilliant stripe to appear on the Summer Solstice Sun over the Mojave Desert June, 20, 2016 (19:10)

Winter solstice

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  Burning sun wheel at Yule, winter solstice
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  Sunrise between the stones at Stonehenge on the Winter Solstice in the mid 1980s.
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  2004 winter solstice viewed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California, USA.
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  Jólablót (Yule Sacrifice) on Winter Solstice 2009. Contemporary Icelandic pagans, members of Ásatrúarfélagið, stand in a circle around a ceremonial fire as they prepare to conduct a religious ceremony.
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  A cold Winter solstice dawn over Winksley, 1998.
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  Winter solstice dawn over Llanrug
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  First rays of the rising winter solstice sun light up the countryside