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 ...

Many cultures worldwide held feasts and celebrated holidays around the winter solstice. Many cultures lit bonfires to strengthen the expiring sun. For plants and animals — including humans ...

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 ...