{"copyright":"\nEnglish Heritage, \nJosh Dury\n","date":"2025-12-22","explanatio n":"Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Cal led a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- fr om 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 longe st night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge in United Kingdom. There, throu gh 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 o ver the millennia, the Sun continues to set over Stonehenge in an astronomically significant way.","hdurl":"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/2512\/Stonehen geSolstice_Dury_3558.jpg","media_type":"image","service_version":"v1","title":"S unset Solstice over Stonehenge","url":"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/251 2\/StonehengeSolstice_Dury_960.jpg"}
