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The much-anticipated prequel to the 2019 sci-fi blockbuster THE WANDERING EARTH - the #5 highest-grossing non-English film of all time - lands in North American theaters just in time for Chinese New Year. Shortly after learning that the sun is rapidly burning out and will obliterate Earth, humans build enormous engines to propel the planet to a new solar system far out of reach of the sun’s fiery flares. However, the journey into the universe is complex, and humankind’s last shot at survival will depend on a group of young people brave enough to step up and execute a dangerous, life-or-death operation to save the Earth.

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Time runs out in carefully marked units in the mainland Chinese sci-fi disaster pic “The Wandering Earth II,” a sturdy prequel to the record-smashing adaptation of Liu Cixin ’s novel. In “The Wandering Earth II,” the apocalyptic problems faced by this movie’s Chinese characters—along with their international peers from the United Earth Government (UEG)—have already happened. Because in “ The Wandering Earth ,” the planet has already left its orbit thanks to some high-powered rocket engines, which have pushed the Earth out of harm’s way (aka a crash course with the Sun). Set in the near-future—a range of dates that includes 2044, 2058, and 2065—“The Wandering Earth II” follows China’s men and women of action as they lead the planet out of the solar system and into the previous movie.

Both “The Wandering Earth” and its sequel are flashy, state-approved cornball spectacles about humanity’s resilience (especially the Chinese). Both movies were produced with gargantuan budgets that would make even James Cameron blink, and they both look fantastic thanks to director Frant Gwo ’s eye for panoramic scope and paperback cover-worthy details. The main difference between these two blockbusters is that the protagonists of “The Wandering Earth II” must repeatedly choose to be hopeful despite perpetually impending disasters, each one of which is neatly labeled and foregrounded with pulpy on-screen text like “The Lunar Crisis in 12 hours” and “Nuclear explosion in 3 hours.”

In this way, Gwo (“ The Sacrifice ”) and his five credited co-writers succeed in refocusing our attention on scenes of ticking-clock suspense, sandwiched between syrupy—and mostly satisfying—melodramatic interludes, where square-jawed astronauts and UEG diplomats struggle to do what we know is a foregone conclusion.

Most of “The Wandering Earth II” follows the superhuman efforts needed to jumpstart the Moving Mountain Project, the mission to first build and then deploy the globe-shifting engines needed to push the Earth out of harm’s way. The UEG’s Chinese delegation, led by the paternal diplomat Zhezhi Zhou ( Li Xuejian ), recommends prioritizing the Moving Mountain Project instead of the Digital Life Project. This radical initiative would transfer human participants’ consciousnesses into artificially intelligent computer programs. Some Digital Life supporters try to sabotage the Moving Mountain Project, including a deadly attack on the Space Elevator transportation ships that send UEG representatives from the Earth to the Moon.

Nobody living through the events of “The Wandering Earth II” knows what we know: That the Moving Mountain project succeeds and eventually becomes the Wandering Earth project, which comes under threat by a HAL 9000-esque artificial intelligence (A.I.) named MOSS in the first film. Still, multiple scientists, government officials, and space adventurers—mostly Chinese—believe in their work’s vital necessity, whether they’re punching out saboteurs or detonating one of a couple hundred nuclear devices scattered around the moon. There’s a lot of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing along the way, mostly from English and Russian-speaking UEG members, all of whom speak in stilted, poorly dubbed dialogue. But Chinese astronauts, like “The Wandering Earth” co-leads Liu Peiqiang (“ Wolf Warrior 2 ” star Wu Jing ) and Han Duoduo ( Wang Zhi ), always prove Zhou’s slogan-simple maxim: “In times of crisis, unity above all.”

Some melancholic (and occasionally maudlin) flashbacks and dialogue emphasize the personal motives of one-note characters who, in the movie’s best scenes, are just parts of a beautiful post-human landscape. Liu remembers his wife and young daughter while melancholic scientist Tu Hengyu ( Andy Lau ) talks with his dead child after he uploads her personality into an experimental A.I. program; she cries a lot and sometimes responds with existentially troubling questions like, “Where am I, daddy? I want to get out.” We’re then periodically reminded of the next impending crisis—“the moon disintegrates in 50 hours”—in between solar storms and nuclear explosions. Somehow, “The Wandering Earth II” never feels tonally unbalanced or narratively convoluted, partly because Gwo and his collaborators keep their movie’s plot focused on feats of action-adventure heroism.

“The Wandering Earth II” only seems relatively unambitious because it’s more focused on sap-happy human emotions than on dystopian intrigue. Both movies are still essentially showcases for beautiful and expensive-looking computer graphics. But “The Wandering Earth II”—a brittle and, at heart, old-fashioned space opera—would be insufferable if Gwo and his ensemble cast members didn’t sell you on the possibility that someday, people who are as selfless, monomaniacal, and capable as Liu and Tu could exist.

“The Wandering Earth II” is also like “The Wandering Earth” because it’s just the right mix of silly and somber. Hurt, scared people wonder about the recent past, but always from a rare position of forward-thinking emotional clarity. (“She’s dead, and that’s it. That’s the reality.”) So when humanity must inevitably save the day, their accomplishments are appropriately surreal and awesome.

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The Wandering Earth 2 , the sequel to the Chinese sci-fi blockbuster that earned $700 million in 2019, is charting a course for North America, thanks to a deal inked by distributor Well Go USA. The specialty label has acquired the domestic theatrical rights to the film and set it up for a day-and-date release with China on Jan. 22, the first day of the Chinese New Year. Well Go says it will launch The Wandering Earth 2 in over 125 North American theaters, including 30 Imax screens.

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The Wandering Earth II takes a sci-fi blockbuster in a stranger, darker direction

The prequel to one of China’s biggest-ever box-office hits is kinda just… 3 hours of suffering

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To successfully imitate the kind of mega-budget worldwide blockbuster most closely associated with Hollywood productions, filmmaker Frant Gwo literally went global. 2019’s The Wandering Earth , a sci-fi disaster adventure that became one of China’s biggest-ever box-office hits, takes place in a future world where Earth has been implanted with thrust rockets and piloted out of orbit to avoid a solar disaster. Astronauts must steer the spaceship-planet to a new home, while the surface freezes and its diminished inhabitants huddle underground.

The film’s enormous scope helped the movie become a Chinese smash, though it fell short of a worldwide phenomenon. (In the U.S., it had a limited theatrical run, then premiered on Netflix a few months later.) Wandering Earth ’s extensive, sometimes convoluted world-building, drawn from a short story by The Three-Body Problem author Cixin Liu , left plenty of room for a follow-up. But Gwo must have grown attached to the less icy version of his home planet, because The Wandering Earth II , receiving a somewhat wider U.S. release alongside its Chinese debut, is something even less likely than a disaster-movie sequel: a disaster-movie prequel.

Set across multiple decades leading up to Earth’s launch out of orbit (enabled by thousands of fusion-powered engines around the globe), the prequel starts off with plenty of its predecessor’s grab-bag maximalism. There’s a seemingly mad scientist extolling the virtues of a “digital you that can live forever” — an AI-based plan pitched as an alternate way to survive the coming apocalypse. (It’s unclear, but it sounds like the idea was to upload everyone to a Matrix-esque digital world, and leave the actual one to fry.) Pro-digital terrorist groups attack a massive space elevator, explosions and low-gravity fisticuffs erupt, and we learn that 91% of Americans oppose moving Earth out of orbit because they don’t think a problem 100 years away is worth solving. (“The world isn’t on the side of the reality,” one official laments.)

$A man stands in a dark, chilly-looking room in front of an immense blackboard covered with mathematical symbols and formulae, dimly lit by a single shaft of light, in The Wandering Earth II$

The sprawling results initially feel like a mashup of Don’t Look Up and Independence Day: Resurgence , but as the film enters its second hour, then its third, it brings in even more familiar bits and pieces of other movies. (It runs 173 minutes, including credits and multiple postscripts.) There is so much movie in The Wandering Earth II , and so many disasters, countdowns, and chyrons to go around. The movie may set a record for the sheer number of subtitled locations, timelines, characters, and occasionally even hardware. The first movie’s astronaut, Liu Peiqiang (Wu Jing) gets a backstory. So does one of the computer systems. The writing team steals bits of Interstellar one moment, and engages in parallel thinking with Moonfall the next. (“The moon disintegrates in 179 hours.”)

But perhaps the goofiest thing about Wandering Earth II is how resolutely un-goofy much of it is. There are moments of absurdity, but the film is often surprisingly grim, in a way that feels admirably ambitious but questionably useful. Much of the movie has a downbeat moon-gray palette, even in scenes that don’t take place on the moon. The saddest storyline it weaves across the decades is about Tu Hengyu (Andy Lau), a scientist grieving the loss of his wife and daughter, convinced he can fine-tune the digital echo of his young child into a fuller AI consciousness. (Here, there are thematic parallels with Yeon Sang-ho’s JUNG_E , a fleeter and more manageable science fiction movie premiering on Netflix right as Wandering Earth II lumbers into theaters.)

The dead-family storyline isn’t the only obligatory pause for pathos, either. Another character must deal with his wife’s imminent death, since cancer cases have spiked during the rise of dangerous solar activity. At the same time, he’s trying to secure one of the limited tickets to an underground city.

A man bends over a table to look at something in a dark, futuristic-looking science lab in The Wandering Earth II

In many ways, Gwo carries this heaviness with more grace than the supposed masters of the modern form. Unlike Roland Emmerich (whose work the Wandering Earth series generally resembles) or Michael Bay (whose Armageddon feels like part of this movie’s DNA), Gwo isn’t afraid of quiet moments amid the bombast. He doesn’t nervously pack his movies with goony comic relief or shameless ploys for applause. Some of his imagery has an eerie, almost mournful beauty — even more so than the previous movie, which found some poetic imagery among the chintzier-looking special effects.

Yet none of this keeps exhaustion from setting in over the course of nearly three hours. Exactly how many countdowns to possible apocalypse can a movie bear, especially when the planet is demonstrably intact at the beginning of the next movie? The audience knows Earth survives, which turns Wandering Earth II into a torture device for its new characters: The planet will keep going, but these poor suckers can still get put through the wringer.

That obviously isn’t Gwo’s intention, and it is remarkable that his three-hour Wandering Earth prequel is simultaneously stranger and more emotionally grounded than the earlier film. Yet even at this length, even with eye-popping moments and believable characters, some crucial humanity feels missing. Classic disaster movies offer something similar to the feel of a horror movie: the terror of annihilation and the catharsis of survival, but spread over a larger canvas. Maybe that model just doesn’t work anymore. Skillfully made as it is, Wandering Earth II feels more like immersion therapy for the modern onslaught of apocalyptic news from around the world. Like franchises, global disasters no longer really end.

The Wandering Earth II opens in theaters on Sunday, Jan. 22, the first day of the lunar new year. Check the movie’s website for locations.

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Review: Chinese Sci-fi Prequel “The Wandering Earth II” Offers Epicness Amidst Subdued Times

Starring Wu Jing and Andy Lau, "The Wandering Earth II" channels its predecessors’s sense of ambition—perhaps too much for its own good, given shifts in China’s sociopolitical climate.

By Anthony Kao , 22 Jan 23 02:00 GMT

When The Wandering Earth came out in 2019, another Cinema Escapist reviewer deemed it a “breathtaking sci-fi success. ” Based on a short story by renowned author Liu Cixin (best known for his Three Body Problem trilogy), the big-budget movie signaled China’s arrival as a major player in the global sci-fi blockbuster arena.

Four years later, director Frant Gwo returns with a prequel, The Wandering Earth II . Starring Wu Jing and Andy Lau, the film feels just as—and perhaps even more—epic than its predecessor, with sweeping sci-fi set pieces and ample CGI. However, The Wandering Earth II ’s grandiosity feels somewhat overwrought, especially given China’s sociopolitical mood is much more subdued in 2023 compared to 2019.

Moving Mountains for a Wandering Earth

The Wandering Earth II spans three decades (from the 2040s to 2060s) and dives into the backstory of how humanity ended up building a bunch of nuclear fusion engines to push Earth away from a soon-to-explode sun, as seen in the first Wandering Earth . It turns out that, as an alternative to moving Earth away from the solar system with the “Moving Mountain Project,” others proposed preserving human consciousness on computers through the “Digital Life Project.”

The movie contains three character subplots that convey the struggle between those two philosophies, though the Moving Mountain Project always enjoys clear supremacy. First and foremost, actor Wu Jing (famous for his roles in the nationalistic Wolf Warrior franchise) reprises his role as astronaut Liu Peiqiang—who was the primary protagonist of the first Wandering Earth , and somehow never ages in the five decades that elapse as he advances the Moving Mountain Project across two movies. Next, Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau plays a grief-stricken scientist who secretly embraces the Digital Life Project, as a way to keep his young daughter alive. Finally, Li Xuejian plays China’s understated but firm representative to the United Earth Government (which succeeded the UN), who must corral international alignment around the Moving Mountain Project amidst sabotage efforts and naysayers.

Epic Movie, Epic China?

On top of this ambitious narrative scope, The Wandering Earth II contains all the drone swarm battles, space elevators, and nuclear explosions necessary to satisfy the cravings of action-hungry audiences. What’s more interesting though is how the movie doubles down on a particular image of Chinese-led geopolitical order, in a manner that feels even sharper than what the first Wandering Earth established.

As with the first Wandering Earth , The Wandering Earth II features China at the helm of a broad international coalition implementing the Moving Mountain Project; these two movies probably recruited the most foreign actors of any productions in Chinese cinematic history. Reflecting China’s real-world engagement with Africa , a chunk of the prequel takes place at a space elevator base station in Libreville, Gabon. While Chinese astronauts, soldiers, scientists, and diplomats take the lead under all circumstances, they’re usually cheery and avuncular, as opposed to imperious. Characters from the Russian military complement the Chinese on multiple occasions, playing into stereotypes of Russians as a zhandou minzu (战斗民族) of soulful warfighters .

While the above elements are all present to some degree in the first Wandering Earth , one significant difference is The Wandering Earth II ’s depiction of the United States as a foil to China. Whereas the original Wandering Earth didn’t feature Americans at all, The Wandering Earth II shows Americans in discussions at the United Earth Government headquarters in New York City. Apparently 91% of Americans don’t believe in the Moving Mountain Project, and the movie paints American officials as belligerent, obstructionist, and petulantly absent from frontline affairs. It’s a view that accords with official Chinese attitudes towards the US, formed especially during the Donald Trump administration.

In general, The Wandering Earth II projects an ambitious image of China that the Communist Party would like audiences to believe exists. Benevolently paternalistic officials leverage advanced technology alongside courageous Wolf Warriors to make this version of China (and by extension the world) a better place. At the same time, in an echo of real-world gaming and tech industry crackdowns, those who engage in digital escapism must be tamed lest they threaten social stability.

2023 isn’t 2019

Alas, reality in China is more complicated than the Communist Party would prefer. In 2019, China indeed seemed like an ascendant responsible global leader, especially compared to a Trumpian United States wracked with isolationism and conspiracy-mongering. The first Wandering Earth fittingly echoed this state of affairs.

However, in 2023, China’s real-world sociopolitical position feels more subdued. With two years of zero-COVID, it’s China that has chosen global isolation , and suffered economically for it. China’s multilateral efforts through the Belt and Road Initiative have stalled , and the country’s famously assertive “ Wolf Warrior Diplomats ” are getting reined in as well. Disillusioned with life in China, educated young Chinese are embracing the “ run philosophy ” of emigrating abroad . Even those stereotypes of Russians as proficient warfighters are now in question , after Putin’s failure to conquer Ukraine.

With that in mind, the epic bombast of The Wandering Earth II starts feeling a bit tone-deaf, especially with the movie clocking in at an eye-numbing 2 hours and 53 minutes (40 minutes longer than its predecessor). The film feels like it’s stuck in a pre-COVID China, and fails to acknowledge what China has been through these past few years. Granted, not every movie needs to reflect political sentiment—but The Wandering Earth II bears a unique burden given its franchise’s established geopolitical significance .

Perhaps The Wandering Earth II should’ve taken a page from Top Gun: Maverick . Both movies convey their respective nations’ geopolitical fantasies, and strive for epic blockbuster appeal. However, Maverick acknowledges America’s malaise before laying it thick with Department of Defense-funded propaganda shots, and emerges a better movie as a result—call it character redemption as a national metaphor, if you will. Alas, showing a China that gets stronger after learning from its anxieties requires acknowledging the existence of anxieties, and doing that gets into a political minefield that The Wandering Earth II ’s filmmakers probably wanted to avoid.

That said, Chinese audiences will likely still flock to watch The Wandering Earth II given its star power, and the halo effect of being a sequel. More nationalistic types will probably embrace the movie as a way to reinvigorate patriotic sentiments. But don’t be surprised if The Wandering Earth II enjoys less buzz than its predecessor, especially among global viewers.

The Wandering Earth II (Chinese: 流浪地球2) —China. Dialog in Mandarin Chinese. Directed by Frant Gwo. First released January 22, 2023. Running time 2hr 53min. Starring Wu Jing, Andy Lau, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li.

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‘The Wandering Earth II’ Review: It Wanders Too Far

The audacious sequel to Frant Gwo’s 2019 sci-fi blockbuster follows survivors working to avert planetary disaster, but it loses much of the glee of its predecessor.

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Three uniformed figures, aboard a spacecraft, duck and shield their faces from flying debris in a scene from “The Wandering Earth II.”

By Brandon Yu

Upon its release, “The Wandering Earth,” Frant Gwo’s 2019 film about a dystopia in which Earth is perilously pushed through space, was minted as China’s first substantial, domestic sci-fi blockbuster, with the box office returns to prove it.

The film was entertaining enough, but its ambitious scope had something of an empty gloss to it, partly because the story’s drama wasn’t grounded in anything beyond the showy cataclysm. Its audaciously messy sequel, “The Wandering Earth II,” seems to have taken note and sprinted, aimlessly, entirely in the other direction. Losing all of the glee of its predecessor, the movie instead offers nearly three hours of convoluted story lines, undercooked themes and a tangle of confused, glaringly state-approved political subtext.

Boasting a bigger budget and greater expectations — the Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau has been added to the cast — “Wandering Earth II” is, narratively, a prequel. Gwo’s follow-up takes place years before the events of the first film and focuses on the United Earth Government’s initial efforts to push Earth out of our solar system, a move intended to avoid planetary disaster. It sets up flimsy ideas about dystopian geopolitics, man versus machine, and the nature of human consciousness (partly as a back story to the “2001: A Space Odyssey”/evil HAL 9000 knockoff plot of the first film).

This is all just in the first hour of setup, before the film does a fast-forward to the next conflict, years later, when humankind needs to nuke the Moon. The premise might be laughable, but silly narrative ideas didn’t get in the way of a good time in the first film. It’s hard to say how much of a true cinematic achievement “The Wandering Earth” was when it gave China its very own “Armageddon ,” but after this sequel trips over its armful of melodramatic plotlines and conspicuously nationalist messaging, you’re left wishing you just savored the mindless fun the first time around.

The Wandering Earth II Not rated. In Mandarin, with subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 53 minutes. In theaters.

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Will ‘The Wandering Earth II’ be on Netflix?

The big-budget Chinese movie is now in theaters but may not be headed to Netflix like the first.

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A big-budget sequel to the Chinese-language Frant Gwo movie The Wandering Earth is currently in theaters but will it be coming to Netflix like the first movie? Here’s what we know.

As you may know, The Wandering Earth was one of the highest-grossing Chinese movie releases, and Netflix acquired the global distribution rights. It arrived on Netflix globally in 2019 and still resides there.

Although labeled the second movie, The Wandering Earth II serves as a prequel to the first movie.

Here’s what you can expect from the second entry, directed by Frant Gwo and starring Wu Jing, Li Xuejian, Ning Li, and Andy Lau:

“In the near future, after learning that the sun is rapidly burning out and will obliterate Earth in the process, humans build enormous engines to propel the planet to a new solar system, far out of reach of the sun’s fiery flares. However, the journey out into the universe is perilous, and humankind’s last shot at survival will depend on a group of young people brave enough to step up and execute a dangerous, life-or-death operation to save the earth.”

Distribution for this movie, we’ve learned, is being handled by Well Go USA Entertainment. The Texas-based outfit was notably behind the distribution of movies like Train to Busan, Project Wolf Hunting , and Possessor .

Will The Wandering Earth II be on Netflix?

No streaming service has picked up the movie yet, we have learned.

A representative for Well Go USA told us, “We are in discussions with multiple streamers and will decide in the coming weeks.”

Until then, it seems, you’ll have to search out watching the movie in theaters which it began doing so just before the Chinese New Year on January 22nd, 2023.

Of course, we will keep this post updated and track where and when The Wandering Earth II will be streaming and if it’s coming to Netflix; hopefully, you’ll hear it from us first.

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Summer Solstice 2024 is the earliest in over 200 years!

The longest day of the year is here, and it's the earliest

Thursday, June 20 is the official first day of northern astronomical summer for 2024 — Summer Solstice — which is the longest day of the year for this half of the planet.

Why is this day so special, though?

A solar 'pause'

'Solstice' comes from the word solstitium , which means "Sun stoppage" in Latin.

Each time the Sun crosses from horizon to horizon between the winter solstice and the summer solstice, it climbs a little bit higher in the sky. On the day of the summer solstice, its climb stops, as it reaches its highest point in the sky for the year.

After that, with each successive passage of the Sun through the sky, its path is a bit lower. This continues until the day of the winter solstice, at which point it 'pauses' again before it once again begins climbing higher in the sky.

The reason for this is the 23.4 degree tilt of Earth's axis.

NASA satellite views of equinoxes and solstices

A view of the equinoxes and solstices from space. (NASA)

According to retired NASA scientist Fred Espenak's Astropixels website , the official northern hemisphere summer 'pause' of the Sun in 2024 occurs on June 20, at 4:51 p.m. EDT.

Tracking the Sun

This day-to-day change in the Sun's position in the sky is best seen in solargraphs, like the one below.

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The Sun traces its way across the sky, lower and lower each day, between June 21 and December 20, 2023. (Bret Culp)

On the first day of summer 2023, award-winning photographer and VFX supervisor Bret Culp met with me at Weather Network headquarters, to place three small pinhole cameras on the roof of the building.

On each sunny or partly sunny day up until the winter solstice, an arching line was burned into the sheet of photographic paper inside each camera. Each line appears roughly one degree lower than the previous one, as it captures the daily change in the Sun's angle in the sky. Indirect light scattered from the surroundings was also collected over that six-month period, generating a long-exposure image of the environment as well.

"The colours are not direct depictions of the scene but a consequence of the paper's chemical reactions to extreme overexposure, the influence of uncontrollable factors such as moisture, dirt or fungus that may invade the camera, and excessive temperature fluctuations," Culp explains. Even the blue colour of the background is just a coincidence. "Additionally, each brand of photography paper has a unique chemical makeup, resulting in different colour schemes."

READ MORE: Solargraphy — The art, science, and chaos of capturing the Sun's path in the sky

What's behind this pattern?

The best way to see the reason for this pattern is to look at how our planet is oriented with respect to the solar system and the Sun.

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(princessdlaf/Getty Images)

Globes are nearly always tilted to one side, to reflect the 23.4° tilt of Earth's axis, compared to the 'ecliptic plane' the planet traces out as it orbits the Sun.

This tilt is the reason for our seasons. When the Earth is on one side of the Sun, the planet's axis lines up with the axis of the Sun, with the north pole pointed more towards the Sun than the south pole. The northern hemisphere thus receives the most direct sunlight, and we mark the beginnings of northern summer and southern winter.

Watch below: Planetary scientist Dr James O'Donoghue traces Earth orbit through a full year of seasons

Around six months later, on the other side of the Sun, Earth's axis once again lines up with the Sun's axis, but with the south pole pointed more towards the Sun this time. This marks the beginning of southern summer and northern winter.

The longest day of the year

June 20 is the longest 'day' of 2024 in Canada — if by 'day' you mean the exact hours of sunlight we see.

Just how many hours of daylight you see on that day depends on where you live, or more specifically, how far north you are.

For example, Windsor, ON, gets a total of 15 hours, 16 minutes, and 40 seconds of daylight on the solstice. Sudbury, roughly 500 kilometres to the north, will see 15 hours, 49 minutes, and 35 seconds. Meanwhile, Iqaluit, over 2,500 km north of Windsor, will have 20 hours, 49 minutes, and 32 seconds of daylight.

Watch below: The view from space reveals the 24 hours of daylight at the Arctic

With the 23.4° tilt of Earth, the 'top' of the world, with respect to the Sun, is at around 66 degrees latitude, better known as the Arctic Circle.

Anyone north of that imaginary line during northern summer has a direct line of sight to the Sun 24 hours a day.

Wandering solstice

Solstices and equinoxes track precise astronomical moments. Each solstice is when the Sun's day-to-day change in position in our sky stops, and Earth's axis lines up perfectly with the Sun's axis. Each equinox is when the Sun appears directly over Earth's tilted equator.

These moments do not happen at the same time from year to year, though. Instead, the timing wanders, depending on exactly how long it takes for Earth to travel around the Sun that year.

However, it also follows a very specific pattern of change, due to a discrepancy between our calendar and the 'solar' or 'tropical' year.

A calendar year is typically 365 days long. A solar or tropical year is the time it takes for the Sun to go through its entire seasonal cycle from one vernal equinox to the next. On average, that equals 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds.

Since our calendar year stops short compared to the solar year, that extra time shows up as the equinoxes and solstices get later each year.

For example, the 2021 northern summer solstice occurred on June 20 at 11:32 p.m. EDT, then it was 5:13 a.m. EDT on June 21 in 2022, and 10:57 a.m. EDT on June 21, 2023. The solstice would have been at 4:51 p.m. EDT on June 21 this year, except 2024 is a leap year. With February 29 added to the calendar, that extra day pulls the solstice back to 4:51 p.m. EDT on June 20 instead.

Watch below: Why leap years? Dr James O'Donoghue demonstrates

It was the introduction of an extra day to our calendar every fourth year that helped us stay synched with the seasons.

However, since the difference between the calendar and solar years isn't exactly 6 hours, adding a full 24-hour day to each leap year actually overcompensates. For that reason, since the mid-1700s, we also purposely skipped a couple of leap year, which has (mostly) corrected the overcorrection.

The earliest Summer Solstice in 228 years!

Even with all of these corrections, overcorrections, and overcorrection-corrections, our calendar still remains slightly out of sync with the solar year. As a result, each leap year, the vernal equinox occurs around 40-50 minutes earlier than the previous leap year vernal equinox.

In 2024, this is resulting in something exceptional.

This year's vernal equinox occurred on March 19, at 11:06 p.m. EDT. It was only the second time that the equinox had fallen on March 19 in more than a century. In fact, it was the earliest spring equinox since 1896 — 128 years ago.

This year's summer solstice is also the earliest we've seen in a long time. However, we have to look back a lot further than 1896.

Even taking into consideration that there was no daylight saving time back then, 2024's summer solstice is still earlier. We actually have to go all the way back to 1796 — 228 years ago — to find an earlier summer solstice.

That year, it was on June 20, at 1:24 p.m. 'Local Mean Time'. Local Mean Time was in use before standard time was introduced in the late 1800s, and set local noon for each community based on when the Sun was highest in their sky. Although they don't match perfectly, LMT and EST/EDT are still close enough that it doesn't affect the comparison here.

Looking ahead, the 2024 autumnal equinox will also be the earliest we've seen since 1796, and the winter solstice will be the earliest since 1797. Additionally, each leap year after this — every 4th year from 2028 through 2096 — the timing of the equinoxes and solstices will get even earlier.

That means we'll have to look further back in history to find earlier ones, at least until we eventually arrive at the earliest equinoxes and solstices in the current era, in 1751 and 1752.

1752 was when the calendar went through a major shift, skipping over 11 full days in September of 1752, to correct 17 centuries of celestial drift and bring the equinoxes and solstices back into alignment with our calendar.

Once that was done, the Gregorian calendar then added in a correction to leap years to prevent that problem from recurring. After 1752, every year evenly divisible by 4 would be a leap year, except those years that are evenly divisible by 100, but not 400 (1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, etc.).

Day of celebrations

Every year on the summer solstice, thousands gather at Stonehenge , the ancient monument in Wiltshire, England, to watch the Sun rise.

Whether they're actual practitioners of Druidry or just there for the spectacle, attendees are treated to a sunrise that will line up exactly over the 'Heel Stone', as viewed from the centre of the monument.

This image, screen-capped from Google Maps, shows the Stonehenge site, with an arrow indicating the alignment of the Sun on the morning of the June solstice. (Google/Scott Sutherland)

According to Frank Somers, from the Amesbury and Stonehenge Druids, celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge is about observing the cycles of nature.

"If you turn up at the changes between the seasons and observe that change," he told the International Business Times UK back in 2014 , "you can become better attuned to those cycles in yourself, and you're a part of them."

In Sweden, the celebration of Midsummer , which occurs on June 22 this year, is one of the most important holidays of the year, on par with Christmas.

According to the website visitsweden.com : "The successful midsummer never-ending lunch party formula involves flowers in your hair, dancing around a pole, singing songs while drinking unsweetened, flavoured schnapps. And downing a whole load of pickled herring served with delightful new potatoes, chives and sour cream. All in all, a grand day out."

In Fairbanks, Alaska, residents usually mark the longest day of the year with the Midnight Sun Game .

While some baseball games are played as night games, the Midnight Sun Game has a whole different take on this concept. The first pitch of this game is thrown at 10 p.m., and the game typically lasts until 1 a.m. the next day. The big difference being, due to the amount of sunlight the area sees around the solstice, the Midnight Sun Game doesn't need a stadium with lights for the teams to play!

This year's game, on June 21, is the 119th Midnight Sun Game, with the Alaska Goldpanners set to play the Seattle Studs.

According to Explore Fairbanks : "The 'high noon at midnight' classic is played entirely without the use of artificial light. The Midnight Sun Game is a Fairbanks tradition that dates back to 1906 as a bar bet between the Eagle's Club and the California Bar, led by Eddie Stroecker, 'Father of the Midnight Sun Game.' Though the game is played through the hour of midnight, artificial lights are never used — and have never been used in the history of the event."

(Thumbnail image courtesy John Nail/Pexels)

(Editor's note: A previous version of this article stated that the 2024 Fall Equinox will be the earliest since 1797 and the 2024 Winter Solstice will be the earliest since 1798. However, this year's Fall Equinox will actually be the earliest since 1796 and the Winter Solstice will be the earliest since 1797. This has been corrected in the text above, and we apologize for any confusion.)

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Summer Solstice 2024 is the earliest in over 200 years!

T hursday, June 20 is the official first day of northern astronomical summer for 2024 — Summer Solstice — which is the longest day of the year for this half of the planet.

Why is this day so special, though?

A solar 'pause'

'Solstice' comes from the word solstitium , which means "Sun stoppage" in Latin.

The reason for this is the 23.4 degree tilt of Earth's axis.

According to retired NASA scientist Fred Espenak's Astropixels website , the official northern hemisphere summer 'pause' of the Sun in 2024 occurs on June 20, at 4:51 p.m. EDT.

Tracking the Sun

This day-to-day change in the Sun's position in the sky is best seen in solargraphs, like the one below.

On the first day of summer 2023, award-winning photographer and VFX supervisor Bret Culp met with me at Weather Network headquarters, to place three small pinhole cameras on the roof of the building.

READ MORE: Solargraphy — The art, science, and chaos of capturing the Sun's path in the sky

What's behind this pattern?

The best way to see the reason for this pattern is to look at how our planet is oriented with respect to the solar system and the Sun.

Globes are nearly always tilted to one side, to reflect the 23.4° tilt of Earth's axis, compared to the 'ecliptic plane' the planet traces out as it orbits the Sun.

Watch below: Planetary scientist Dr James O'Donoghue traces Earth orbit through a full year of seasons

The longest day of the year

June 20 is the longest 'day' of 2024 in Canada — if by 'day' you mean the exact hours of sunlight we see.

Just how many hours of daylight you see on that day depends on where you live, or more specifically, how far north you are.

Watch below: The view from space reveals the 24 hours of daylight at the Arctic

With the 23.4° tilt of Earth, the 'top' of the world, with respect to the Sun, is at around 66 degrees latitude, better known as the Arctic Circle.

Anyone north of that imaginary line during northern summer has a direct line of sight to the Sun 24 hours a day.

Wandering solstice

These moments do not happen at the same time from year to year, though. Instead, the timing wanders, depending on exactly how long it takes for Earth to travel around the Sun that year.

However, it also follows a very specific pattern of change, due to a discrepancy between our calendar and the 'solar' or 'tropical' year.

Since our calendar year stops short compared to the solar year, that extra time shows up as the equinoxes and solstices get later each year.

Watch below: Why leap years? Dr James O'Donoghue demonstrates

It was the introduction of an extra day to our calendar every fourth year that helped us stay synched with the seasons.

The earliest Summer Solstice in 228 years!

In 2024, this is resulting in something exceptional.

This year's summer solstice is also the earliest we've seen in a long time. However, we have to look back a lot further than 1896.

That means we'll have to look further back in history to find earlier ones, at least until we eventually arrive at the earliest equinoxes and solstices in the current era, in 1751 and 1752.

Day of celebrations

Every year on the summer solstice, thousands gather at Stonehenge , the ancient monument in Wiltshire, England, to watch the Sun rise.

According to Frank Somers, from the Amesbury and Stonehenge Druids, celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge is about observing the cycles of nature.

In Sweden, the celebration of Midsummer , which occurs on June 22 this year, is one of the most important holidays of the year, on par with Christmas.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, residents usually mark the longest day of the year with the Midnight Sun Game .

This year's game, on June 21, is the 119th Midnight Sun Game, with the Alaska Goldpanners set to play the Seattle Studs.

(Thumbnail image courtesy John Nail/Pexels)

WATCH | Solargraphy: Capturing the Sun's journey in an image

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