Copyright:
English Heritage,
Josh Dury
中文翻譯:
昨天，太陽在地球的天空中達到南方的最低點。這一天被稱為冬至，許多文化都把這個日子視為季節的變化——在北半球，從秋天轉到冬天；而在南半球，則是從春天變成夏天。這幅圖片是在2025年北半球最長的夜晚之前，在英國的巨石陣拍攝的。在那裡，透過4500年前精確擺放的石頭，可以看到這顆45億年的大發光球體正在西沉。即使考慮到數千年來地球自轉軸的進動，太陽依然以天文學上重要的方式在巨石陣上方落下。
原文:
Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth’s sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday’s date as a change of seasons — from autumn to winter in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere and from spring to summer in Earth’s Southern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge in United Kingdom. There, through stones precisely placed 4,500 years ago, a 4.5 billion year old large glowing orb is seen setting. Even given the precession of the Earth’s rotational axis over the millennia, the Sun continues to set over Stonehenge in an astronomically significant way.
來源:NASA每日圖片
