Winter solstice today. Google celebrates it with animated doodle

Winter solstice is also known as the “first day of winter” in the northern hemisphere as well as ‘hiemal solstice or hibernal solstice. ‘Solstice’ is a Latin word that means ‘stalled sun’. A solstice occurs twice in a year once in the summer and again in during winter.

It’s the shortest day of the year for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. The day as marked as winter solstice, and falls on December 21 every year.

As winter begins, the days will gradually get longer again from this time of the year.

Search engine giant Google is celebrating winter solstice with a doodle which shows a hedgehog walking on the snow. In a tweet, the Google Doodles handle said, “As the Earth tilts on its axis, many across the Southern Hemisphere prepare to chill out for the next few months… Happy first day of Winter! #GoogleDoodle.”

Winter solstice is also known as the “first day of winter” in the northern hemisphere as well as ‘hiemal solstice or hibernal solstice.

‘Solstice’ is a Latin word that means ‘stalled sun’. A solstice occurs twice in a year once in the summer and again in during winter.

Around this time every year, countries in the northern hemisphere are farthest from the Sun and the Sun shines overhead on the Tropic of Capricorn. The Earth’s axis is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees as it rotates around the Sun. This phenomenon causes the movement of the Sun from the northern to the southern hemisphere and vice versa bringing in seasonal…

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