{"id":23563,"date":"2024-05-20T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23563"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:04:18","slug":"summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/summer-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Summer solstice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Summer solstice:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In Latin, &#8220;Solstice&#8221; means &#8220;<strong>sun stands still&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is an annual astronomical phenomenon that brings the <strong>longest day of the year.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>On the summer solstice, the <strong>Northern Hemisphere<\/strong> is tilted toward the sun, receiving the full glare of the sun&#8217;s rays.<\/li>\n<li>During the solstice, <strong>the Earth\u2019s axis<\/strong> \u2014 around which the planet spins, is tilted in a way that the <strong>North Pole is tipped towards the Sun<\/strong> and the South Pole is away from it.<\/li>\n<li>Typically, this imaginary axis passes right through the middle of the Earth from top to bottom and is always tilted at 23.5 degrees with respect to the Sun.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What happens during the solstice?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This day sees the Earth receiving a <strong>greater amount of energy<\/strong> from the Sun.<\/li>\n<li>Each year, the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere falls <strong>on one of two days: June 20 or June 21. <\/strong>In the Southern Hemisphere, the summer solstice happens on Dec. 21 or Dec. 22.<\/li>\n<li>The date varies because the <strong>Gregorian calendar<\/strong> has 365 days, with an extra leap day added in February every four years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The amount of light received by a specific area in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer solstice depends on the latitudinal location of the place.<\/li>\n<li>The further north one moves from the equator, the more light one receives during the summer solstice. At the <strong>Arctic Circle,<\/strong> the sun does not set during the solstice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is solar flare?<\/h3>\n<p>A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. Flares are our solar system&#8217;s largest explosive events. They are seen as bright areas on the sun, and they can last from minutes to hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/summer-solstice-the-science-behind-the-longest-day-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Summer solstice 2024: When is the solstice, why does it happen, and how do cultures celebrate?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer solstice is an annual astronomical phenomenon that brings the longest day of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}