Winter solstice: The sun stands still on Saturday

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 16:40 in Astronomy & Space

This coming Saturday marks one of the four major way stations on the Earth’s annual journey around the sun.Because of the tilt in the Earth’s axis of rotation, the sun appears to rise and fall in our sky over the course of a year.

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