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SorellaLaBefana

(481 posts)
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 06:39 AM Dec 22

Needed and Welcome: Calming Cliche of Setting Solsticetide Sun

... image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge in United Kingdom. There, through stones precisely placed 4,500 years ago, a 4.5 billion year old large glowing orb is seen setting. Even given the precession of the Earth's rotational axis over the millennia, the Sun continues to set over Stonehenge in an astronomically significant way.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251222.html

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepeople...

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