Autumnal equinox brings fall to the northern hemisphere today (Sept. 22)
The Autumnal equinox occurs on Thursday , at which time the sun will be directly over Earth's equator. This means everyone across the globe gets a day and night lasting approximately 12 hours each.
For the northern hemisphere, the September equinox marks the first day of autumn. On the other side of the equator, the southern hemisphere, therise from the direction of due east and set in the direction of due west. The Autumnal equinox, which always falls between Sept. 21 and Sept. 24, is one of two equinoxes.
This axial direction is fixed, pointing towards the North Star throughout the year, but it does not always point towards the sun. To picture the Earth's axial tilt, imagine taking a gigantic cosmic pencil and pushing it through the center of Earth so the tip emerges from the South Pole and the eraser end sticks out of the North Pole. As Earth orbits the sun, the eraser of the pencil is angled in such a way that sometimes it is tilted towards the sun — around June — while the tip is pointed away. This means the northern hemisphere receives more sunlight while the southern hemisphere receives less.
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