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During the Earth's trip around the Sun, solstices come around twice a year, at the points in Earth's orbit where this tilt is most pronounced. The summer solstice begins around June 21 whereas the December solstice arrives on December 21. Solstices also mark the change of seasons throughout the year. The first day of the Summer Solstice marks the day when the Sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer which is located at 23.5° latitude North. June 21 is also the longest day of the year, but why is it so? The science…

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June 21 is an interesting date. It is the date when Earth has its longest day and the shortest night. This date is also known as the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere of the world. In the northern hemisphere, summer is in the middle of the year. Whereas, in the southern hemisphere summer lies in December.  The summer solstice is marked to celebrate the beginning of summer or mid-summer as at this time Earth's pole is on the maximum tilt towards the sun. After June 21, the days start to get shorter…

New Aerocity Metro station on Aerocity–Tughlakabad Silver Line (Photo: DMRC)Repor says the Tughlakabad-Aerocity line aims to increase the transportation and connectivity from Chhatarpur Extension, Mehrauli-Badarpur and Mahipalpur routes.To provide better transportation, and good connectivity in the city, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is all set to expand the Tughlakabad-Aerocity Silver line. It has been reported that after the expansion, the platform will become one of the largest stations among all phase 4…

Change is a constant and that happens on the tiny scale of a human being to those of the biggest galaxies in the world. Now, NASA has detected a group of galaxies plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster, but the significant part is that it is leaving behind the longest known tail of superheated gas behind a galaxy group ever found.NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory snapped the galaxy group NGC 4839. First, know what a galaxy group is as opposed to galaxy cluster. Galaxy groups are collections of about 50 galaxies or less and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAs Hollywood’s finest gather at Cannes Film Festival this week, the event’s strangest phenomenon – and greatest overindulgence – has been making headlines: the standing ovation.The French Riviera event breeds longer standing ovations than any typical night at London’s West End, and that’s because, after the screening ends at each world premiere, a camera swoops in on the cast and crew…

A Florida scientist who goes by Dr. Deep Sea online has just broken the record for the longest time living underwater, according to his Instagram post. Dr. Deep Sea, or Joe Dituri, is a US Navy veteran, and for the past 70+ days, he has spent his days living in a habitat under the sea. Dituri plans to spend 100 days in the habitat before finally surfacing again. The experiment is taking place in the Jules’ Undersea Lodge, which is a steel and glass habitat located 30 feet below the surface of the water in a…

The Maruti 800 is an iconic car in the history of the Indian automotive industry. The car was initially launched in 1983 and remained in production for decades. The Maruti 800 made cars affordable for Indian middle-class families. Although Maruti discontinued the 800 in 2014, there are still several collectors who have well-maintained versions of the car in their garages. Many of them have also modified this small family hatchback. Here, we have a video of a Maruti 800 that has been modified into a hearse. It is…

Image via Apple TV Plus Martin Scorsese is at it again. After the marathon of epicness that was The Irishman, the director is now bringing us another lengthy tome of a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Killers of the Flower Moon is looking to set the record for the longest film this year with yet another staggeringly long runtime. Adapted from the book by David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (a long title, we know) and starring two of Scorsese’s…

via Disney The easiest way for Disney to at least try and quieten down the backlash and trolling being aimed at the upcoming remake of The Little Mermaid was for the long-awaited first trailer to absolutely knock it out of the park and make it clear in no uncertain terms that the project has the potential to be one of the Mouse House’s greatest live-action remakes yet. Unfortunately, that isn’t exactly what happened, with the shoddy CGI being dragged over the hot coals of online criticism, all while the…