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Topic: earth-science

The sun low over the horizon near midnight at high latitude
Science
Sunday, 6/28, 02:11 AM

Why the days are already getting shorter, just after the solstice

  • The longest day of the year has barely passed, yet daylight in the Northern Hemisphere is already shrinking again.
  • The reason lies not in how close Earth is to the Sun — it's actually about to get farther away — but in the steady geometry of a tilted planet circling a star.

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