We know the equinox sun rises due east and sets due west. But what happens at Earth's poles? Turns out the North Pole sun is above the horizon all day long. And it looks exactly the same at the South Pole!
Day and night are mostly equal on the equinox. There's a bit more daylight because the sun is a disk, not a point, and Earth’s atmosphere refracts sunlight.
We're counting down to the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse, which will cross North America. Eclipses and equinoxes are related, they are like cousins!
The year's fastest sunsets are at the equinoxes, and the slowest are at the solstices. We're talking about how long it takes the sun to sink below the horizon.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft started sending gibberish back to Earth in November. Now engineers have sent it a "poke" and received a message they can decipher.