It's long seemed like Stonehenge harbors many secrets, and it's not keen on giving them up. But a rare lunar event might finally give us some answers.

I know that on the summer solstice, the sun rises directly above the heel stone, the one in the opening of the circle. If one were to draw an imaginary straight line from the center of Stonehenge ...

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The placement of stones allows for the sun to rise through a stone “window” during summer solstice. The ancient purpose of the altar stone — which lies flat at the heart of Stonehenge ...

The stones’ alignment means that on the Summer Solstice the Sun rises directly behind ... the longest night in the year. Stonehenge is just one of hundreds of stone circles that have been ...

Large crowds of Druids, Pagans and tourists gathered at Stonehenge in England to celebrate the summer solstice by watching the sunrise on the longest day of the year. Photo: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ...

The unique stone circle ... lengthen until the summer solstice in June. Stonehenge has long been associated with the solstices. The stones were built to align with the sun in both midsummer ...

Stonehenge was likely built as a ... A person standing right at the centre of the stone circle could see the midwinter solstice Sun set over its middle.

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The summer solstice is almost here ... One notable example of this is a yearly pilgrimage to the neolithic stone circle Stonehenge in the UK. Read next ...

The beginning of the summer season in the northern ... at sunrise—as is done at Stonehenge in the U.K., which aligns with the rising Sun on the solstice—but this year there’s a bonus view ...