Category: Pop culture

• Happy Groundhog Day!

  Nothing too exciting to say today, except to commemorate that highly important solar festival, Groundhog Day. In the solar year, there are four significant dates: the two solstices, where the Sun reaches the highest latitudes in the sky, and the equinoxes, where the Sun is directly over the equator at noon. These are pretty well-known,…

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 2, 2011

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Pop culture