Today is Australia's shortest day of 2022 — or the longest night of the year, depending on how you want to look at it. Here are some ways the winter solstice is celebrated across the globe.
Today is Australia's shortest day of 2022 — or the longest night of the year, depending on how you want to look at it.
Compare this to the summer solstice, December 22, which will get four-and-a-half hours more daylight.for a bit of star gazing. "As far as astronomers are concerned, the winter solstice is a great time because we have the most night time and astronomers love night time," Professor Bedding said.In Antarctica, expeditioners jump into a pool cut into the sea ice.
People will strip right down to their swimwear — think budgie smugglers or bikinis — and plunge into the icy water.
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