From sunrise gatherings to midsummer festivals, summer solstice celebrations certainly blow the winter cobwebs away. Related: Stonehenge's summer solstice orientation is seen in monuments all over ...

The event also marks the shortest day of the year, where sunrise and sunset ... at noon on the winter solstice, your shadow will be the longest it will be all year. While the winter solstice ...

It should be worth watching because Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn—as well as the First Quarter Moon—will all be visible in the east just before the “solstice sunrise.” ...

Thousands of people have gathered at Stonehenge to see the winter solstice sunrise. From 21 December, the shortest day of the year, the nights will slowly start to draw back again and the days ...

Some ancient monuments such as Newgrange, Stonehenge, Cahokia Woodhenge and Ahu Tongariki are aligned with the sunrise or sunset on the winter solstice ... as the mating of animals, the sowing ...