About Summer Solstice
The summer solstice, also known as midsummer, occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere. For that hemisphere, the summer solstice is when the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky and is the day with the longest period of daylight.
Burning Man festival-goers told to conserve food and water
... The festival was founded in June 1986 when Larry Harvey and his friend Jerry Goodell burned a wooden man on Baker Beach in San Francisco to mark the Summer Solstice...
Thousands welcome summer solstice at Stonehenge
...Some 10,000 people have gathered to welcome the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge...
Manhattanhenge: How to see it this year
... It happens about three weeks before and three weeks after the Summer Solstice...
'Fantastic' winter solstice marked at Stonehenge
... The event is thought to be more important in the pagan calendar than the Summer Solstice because it marks the " re-birth" of the sun for the new year...
Stonehenge summer solstice: Thousands welcome back celebrations
...More than 6,000 people have gathered to watch sunrise at Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice...
Summer solstice: The people who drove through the night to see the sunrise
...The first place to see in the Summer Solstice in the UK was Ness Point in Lowestoft...
What is the UV-Index is and why it was able to break UK records?
... We have just passed the Summer Solstice, the sun is high in the sky, says Taylor...
UK weather: Sun safety warning as the UV-plane is tilted to float
... We have just past the Summer Solstice the sun is higher in the sky, he said...
Week in pictures: 15-21 June 2019
Our selection of some of The Most striking news photographs taken around The World This Week .
A mourner in Hong Kong , wearing a yellow raincoat, pays tribute to a protester who died after falling from scaffolding during mass protests in The City . Millions of protesters have taken part in rallies in recent weeks. They are calling for a proposed bill, which allows extradition to Mainland China , to be scrapped. A Man takes his horse to cool off in the Mediterranean Sea on a hot summer's day in the northern Gaza Strip . Four women take a break on The First day of racing at Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, England. The five-day meeting is one of the highlights of the horse-racing calendar. Supporters of the Santa Maria Novella Rossi team light flares ahead of the semi-finals of the Calcio Storico Fiorentino in Florence, Italy. The official rules of calcio storico - a centuries-old "sport" which merges rugby and Football - were written in 1580 by a local count. The Event forms part of annual celebrations every June to honour The City 's patron saint. Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, stages a protest outside the Iranian embassy in London. His British-Iranian wife was jailed in Iran for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies. Mr Ratcliffe is campaigning for her unconditional release. Conservative MP Mark Field confronts Greenpeace activist Janet Barker at a black-tie dinner in London. The Foreign Office minister was filmed marching Ms Barker away as protesters interrupted a speech by Chancellor Philip Hammond . Mr Field has since apologised, but added he was "genuinely worried" Ms Barker may have been armed. He has been suspended as a minister while investigations take place. A displaced Afghan Girl carries a child near their shelter at a refugee camp on The Outskirts of Kabul. Riot policemen take cover during protests in Tbilisi, Georgia. Protesters took to The Streets after Russian MP Sergei Gavrilov addressed an assembly of MPs in Georgia's parliament. Some 240 people were hurt in the clashes. Relations between the two nations remain strained 11 years after Georgia and Russia fought A War over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. A reveller celebrates the sunrise at Stonehenge in Wiltshire on Summer Solstice , the longest day of the year. About 10,000 people gathered at the Neolithic monument, which is built along the alignment of the midsummer sunrise and the midwinter sunset. In Germany, the Dortmund Fire Department was alerted to a squirrel with its head stuck in a manhole cover, apparently trying to escape the sewer system beneath. The squirrel was anaesthetised so it could be freed, after which it was treated and released back into The Wild .photography
Source of news: bbc.com
Summer solstice Photos
