It's summer solstice time. What does that mean?

DALLAS -- It's clip for the commencement of summertime - with a afloat satellite to boot.

Here's what to cognize astir the summertime solstice successful the Northern Hemisphere connected Thursday.

What is the summertime solstice?

The Earth spins connected a tilt arsenic it revolves astir the sun. The summertime solstice occurs for Earth's precocious fractional erstwhile the Northern Hemisphere is tilted astir intimately toward the sun. This besides marks the longest time and shortest nighttime of the year.

Around the aforesaid time, the Southern Hemisphere is astatine its astir utmost tilt distant from the sun, entering wintertime solstice and its shortest time of the year.

Six months later, the halves volition power it up: The Northern Hemisphere volition acquisition a wintertime solstice, and the Southern Hemisphere volition person a summertime solstice.

What is an equinox?

Equinoxes people the commencement of outpouring and autumn, and hap erstwhile Earth's axis and orbit enactment up specified that some hemispheres get an adjacent magnitude of sunlight.

The vernal equinox connected March 19 kicked disconnected spring, and the autumnal equinox connected Sept. 22 volition usher successful fall.

What is the strawberry moon?

This year's summertime solstice comes with a treat: the archetypal afloat satellite of the summer, coined the strawberry moon. The satellite won't beryllium pinkish oregon reddish successful color: Its sanction comes from respective Indigenous tribes who noticed that its timing coincided with the strawberry harvest.

On Friday evening, formed your eyes to the southeast to glimpse the afloat satellite peeking supra the horizon.

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