Winter Solstice Cheers!

Today is the winter solstice, which happily means our nights will start to get shorter. Here in eastern South Dakota, the winter solstice takes place at exactly 5:38pm today.

This is also the first time in 372 years that a full lunar eclipse coincided with the winter solstice. For those that did not or could not see the eclipse, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a Flickr group with over 600 pictures (so far!) of last night's lunar eclipse. Very neat!

To find out more about past, present, and future lunar eclipses, check out NASA's Lunar Eclipse Page.