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What’s the Winter Solstice? Celebrations, Science, Livestream
Here’s what happens on the longest night of the year—in the solar system and across different cultures here on Earth.
WIRED spoke with Tansu Daylan, a former Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) postdoctoral associate at MIT, to better understand the winter solstice and our planet’s relationship with the sun. To picture what is happening in space during a winter solstice, start by thinking of a giant glass ball surrounding the Earth, and let’s ignore the planet’s rotation (which complicates everything). HasanzadeNemati suggests making her khoresht fesenjan recipe(pomegranate and walnut stew) as a warm meal to enjoy on a chilly December solstice.
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