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 | | | View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Photographer John Ashley said, “The sun's path during summer solstice arches high across the sky (upper), but at winter solstice its path barely clears the brick walls of the Potter's Shrine, a sculptural landmark on the grounds of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.” Read more about this photo. | | |
| | | | A second black hole at our galaxy's center? | | | There's a supermassive black hole - 4 million times our sun's mass - in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers who've measured star movements near this central black hole are now saying there might be a 2nd companion black hole near it. Read more. | | | | | | | | | |
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|  | | | Ursid meteors peak around now | | The Ursid meteor shower runs from about December 17 to 26 each year and always peaks around the December solstice. After the solstice and the shower’s peak, keep watching. You still might catch some! Read more. | | | | | |
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 | | | At the moment of solstice | Day and night sides of Earth at the instant of the December 2019 solstice: December 22, 2019, at 04:19 UTC. That’s tonight for the
Americas, as you can see on the map above. Image via EarthView. Read more. | | |
