PHOTOS: Throwback to Summer Solstice and the Midnight Sun on June 21, in pictures
Summer Solstice is also referred to as Midsummer, First Day of Summer, June solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the longest day of the year. This phenomenon occurs twice a year, once in the Northern Hemisphere (between June 20-22, depending on the year and time zone) and once in the Southern Hemisphere (between Dec 20-23).
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Three-year old Anna May Byrne plays in a field of wild flowers on Dublin's northside, Ireland, as the sun shines on this years summer solstice, Saturday June 20, 2020. (AP/Brian Lawless)
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Arthur Uther Pendragon, left, and visitors turn to face the direction of the rising sun next to the closed Stonehenge as people gather to celebrate the dawn of the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, near Salisbury, England, Sunday June 21, 2020. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)
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FILE - In this Sunday, June 21, 2015 file photo, the sun rises as thousands of revellers gather at the ancient stone circle Stonehenge to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, near Salisbury, England. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
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People are seen hiking along a new northern side trail of the Saana fell at the border area between Finland and Norway, in Enonteki', northern Finland, in the night between Sunday and early Monday June 22, 2020. Sunday June 21 marked the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, as in the northernmost parts of Finland the midnight sun does not set below the horizon. (Otto Ponto/Lehtikuva via AP)
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