the winter solstice

Winter solstice versus summer solstice. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The winter solstice - the shortest day of the year

On Friday, 22/12/23 at 05:26 viewers from Jerusalem will have the point of time where the length of the day reverses, winter ends and spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere. The length of the day - ten hours and four minutes
Figure 1. The movement of the Earth around the Sun. Courtesy of Dr. Nadia Goldovski, who is in charge of time and frequency measurements at the National Physics Laboratory at the Ministry of Economy and Industry

Winter 2021 is already here: astronomy also determines

Dr. Nadia Goldovski - the person in charge of time and frequency measurements at the National Physics Laboratory at the Ministry of Economy and Industry, explains why astronomical solstices and equinoxes apply and compares the length of the day throughout the year between