why are 21st june and 22nd december solistice days?
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The solstices and equinoxes are used in many nations to determine the seasons of the year. When the plane of the Earth's Equator touches the geometric centre of the Sun's disc, it is called an equinox. This happens twice a year, around the 20th of March and the 23rd of September. In other terms, it is the time when the visible Sun's centre is directly above the Equator.
On the celestial sphere, a solstice occurs when the Sun appears to be at its most southerly or northerly excursion relative to the celestial Equator. Every year, around June 21 and December 22, two solstices occur. The term solstice can also refer to the day when this happens in a broader meaning. The day of the solstice is either hemisphere that has either the greatest sunlight of the year, summer solstice or June solstice, or the least sunlight of the year, winter solstice or December solstice, for any area other than the Equator.
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these are the days when the sun's path in the sky in the farthest north or south from the equator.