Question

Differentiate between solistice and equinox

Answer 1

This is especially so during equinoxes and solstices. “Equinox” comes from the Latin words “aequus” which means “equal,” and “nox” which means “night.” It is when the center of the sun spends the same amount of time above and below the horizon with the tilt of the Earth exactly the same so it is not slanted away or towards the sun, thus making the hours of darkness and light equal.

“Solstice,” on the other hand, comes from the Latin words “sol” which means “sun” and “sistere” which means “to stand still.” During the solstice, the sun stops before reversing its direction causing sunlight to reach the southernmost and northernmost extremes of the Earth and providing them with longer nights and days.

Both an equinox and solstice happen twice each year. An equinox happens at a specific moment in time unlike the solstice which happens in days. There is the summer solstice wherein the days of sunlight are the longest, and the winter solstice wherein the days of darkness are also the longest.
While the solstice happens during summer and winter when the sun is the farthest away, the equinox happens during the start of autumn and spring, the time when the sun is closest to the equator. They are both dependent upon the seasons marking the start or the separation of seasons.


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Answer 2

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Explanation:

A solstice is an event occurring when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around June 21 and December 21. The seasons of the year are determined by reference to both the solstices and the equinoxes.

The term solstice can also be used in a broader sense, as the day when this occurs. The day of a solstice in either hemisphere has either the most sunlight of the year (summer solstice) or the least sunlight of the year (winter solstice) for any place other than the Equator. Alternative terms, with no ambiguity as to which hemisphere is the context, are "June solstice" and "December solstice", referring to the months in which they take place every year. [3]

The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still"), because at the solstices, the Sun's declination appears to "stand still"; that is, the seasonal movement of the Sun's daily path (as seen from Earth) stops at a northern or southern limit before reversing direction.