A few times each year, the rising and setting suns align with the east-west streets of Manhattan. It’s a phenomenon commonly referred to as "Manhattanhenge." While the exact timing varies slightly from one year to the next, it usually occurs a few weeks before and after the summer and winter solstices. Tonight’s sunset will find the full sun’s golden rays streaming directly through Manhattan"s major cross streets.
A day to celebrate the sun
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
A day of service for Dr. King
-
What s going on in this sky?
-
Celebrating Charles Darwin
-
National Hug Day
-
Birch trees, Drammen, Norway
-
National Hammock Day
-
Celebrate International Women’s Day
-
Gazing upon Portraits of Change
-
World Environment Day
-
Storks ready for takeoff
-
Australian baobab tree, Kimberley region, Western Australia
-
Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy
-
A summertime light show
-
The Cutty Sark turns 150
-
Hemakuta Hill, Hampi, India
-
March of the flowers
-
Looking down upon Edinburgh
-
Spring equinox
-
A state-of-the-art lookout on the Rock of Gibraltar
-
Happy International Zebra Day!
-
Happy Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien!
-
The parenting of a piping plover
-
FOR FOREST by Klaus Littmann
-
International Tea Day
-
Hallstatt, Austria
-
Lavender fields in Plateau de Valensole, France
-
Combating extinction with citizen science
-
Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
-
Pretty in pink, and purple, and red…
-
Pacific Rim Whale Festival
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

