Thanks to the tilt of the Earth, the nights of the Scandinavian summer are lit by the golden light from the midnight sun. Depending on how north you travel, the sun doesn’t set for weeks or even ...
While this may sound like an otherworldly scenario, for those living in the polar regions, it's just another summer's day, albeit one that never ends. Here, we explore the midnight sun — also ...
In northern Scandinavia, above the Arctic Circle, the phenomenon of the midnight sun at solstice time is a seasonal clock that seems to divide summer, if not the entire year into two distinct parts.
Summer beckons us all year long with the promise ... formerly a cultural astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first Midnight Sun Game, held in 1906, began as a bet between ...
At 12:30 in the middle of the night, with the sun still illuminating the sky, a Cuban known on TikTok as Kiko the Cuban, expressed his amazement at ...
it was determined by the weather and the angle of the lingering midnight Sun. Many times, he was foiled by fog, clouds or the birds’ behaviour. ‘They tend to rest for long periods at night,’ ...