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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge
NASA ^ | 22 Dec, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage, Josh Dury

Posted on 12/22/2025 12:17:06 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from spring to summer in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. The featured 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.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa; stonehenge

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1 posted on 12/22/2025 12:17:06 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 12/22/2025 12:17:27 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...

Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 12/22/2025 12:18:03 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Cool.


4 posted on 12/22/2025 12:18:19 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

photo....

It made it through war, the elements, you name it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzig43Dr2y0


5 posted on 12/22/2025 12:49:34 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MtnClimber

Nice.


6 posted on 12/22/2025 1:07:34 PM PST by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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Moon over Stonehenge

The Old Ones have returned

7 posted on 12/22/2025 1:13:02 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: MtnClimber

Very cool


8 posted on 12/22/2025 1:28:32 PM PST by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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To: MtnClimber

Impressive, considering the stones are only 18” tall.

(Somebody had to do it.)


9 posted on 12/22/2025 4:16:37 PM PST by Disambiguator
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Only six more months until the days start getting shorter again!


10 posted on 12/22/2025 4:33:30 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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12/22/2025: Protestia.com - "Thousands Gather At Stonehenge For Winter Solstice, Including Druids and Witches"

11 posted on 12/22/2025 9:21:47 PM PST by MacNaughton
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The aliens were pretty smart who built this for one of their music fests....


12 posted on 12/24/2025 1:03:43 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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