Solstices in a sentence

Speculating a Babylonian origin for the Callippic year is hard to defend, since Babylon did not observe solstices thus the only extant System B year length was based on Greek solstices (see below).

Solstices kick off summer and winter.

The solstices mark the extremes of the Earth’s tilt toward or away from the sun.

Uranus has a highly unusual spin and appears a little greener at its solstices (i.e. summer and winter), when one of the planet’s poles is pointed towards the sun.

It is believed that solstices have been celebrated at Stonehenge for thousands of years.

People at Stonehenge on the solstices know how to throw a party.

Detailed analysis of the visible and microwave data revealed that the periodical changes of brightness are not completely symmetrical around the solstices, which also indicates a change in the meridional albedo patterns.

English names The two solstices can be distinguished by different pairs of names, depending on which feature one wants to stress.

Geminus explains that Greek astronomers of his era associate the first degrees of the zodiac signs with the two solstices and the two equinoxes, in contrast to the older Chaldean (Babylonian) system, which placed these points within the zodiac signs.

Here, the Chinese character 至 means "extreme", so the terms for the solstices directly signify the summits of summer and winter.

In contrast to the other planets, whose motions around the Sun resemble that of spinning tops, Uranus's motion can be visualized as that of a ball rolling on the ecliptic plane near solstices and of a spinning rifle bullet near equinoxes.

It is likely that he was not the first to determine the solstices, because no calculation is necessary.

Its motion, like the Sun, is between two limits — known as lunistices rather than solstices.

Near the summer and winter solstices, Uranus's hemispheres lie alternately either in full glare of the Sun's rays or facing deep space.

New evidence indicates that broader Edomite, and Nabataean theology had strong links to Earth-Sun relationships, often manifested in the orientation of prominent Petra structures to equinox and solstices sunrises and sunsets.

On average, the astronomical solstices and the equinoxes advance by about 11 minutes per year against the Julian year.

On the other hand, equinoxes do not correspond to the middle point between the positions during solstices, as the Babylonians thought.

Originally, the Julian calendar added a leap day every four years, but this turned out to add too many days, making the equinoxes and solstices shift gradually to earlier dates.

Ramadan in polar regions The length of the dawn to sunset time varies in different parts of the world according to summer or winter solstices of the sun.

The solstices (as well as the equinoxes ) mark the middle of the seasons in East Asian calendars.