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- Symbol for solstices and equinoxes
- Sunlight reaching the earth during summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
- Same image in Polish
- Same image in Dutch
- Sunlight reaching the earth during winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
- Same image in Polish
- Same image in French
- Same image in Irish
- Images showing reflected sunlight at winter and summer solstices
- Path of the Sun on the sky during solstices and equinoxes at 43° N.
Summer solstice
English: Summer solstice is the longest day of the year. It takes place on June 21/22 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21/22 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is celebrated as a festival several places.
- Solstice fire in Montana
- Solstice night at Stonehenge
- Sunrise after summer solstice in Stonehenge
- A break in the haze causes a brilliant stripe to appear on the Summer Solstice Sun over the Mojave Desert June, 20, 2016 (19:10)
Winter solstice
- Burning sun wheel at Yule, winter solstice
- Sunrise between the stones at Stonehenge on the Winter Solstice in the mid 1980s.
- 2004 winter solstice viewed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California, USA.
- Jólablót (Yule Sacrifice) on Winter Solstice 2009. Contemporary Icelandic pagans, members of Ásatrúarfélagið, stand in a circle around a ceremonial fire as they prepare to conduct a religious ceremony.
- A cold Winter solstice dawn over Winksley, 1998.
- Winter solstice dawn over Llanrug
- First rays of the rising winter solstice sun light up the countryside