Explanation - Midnight Sun

Nice to see you again! So, following my obligation as a student, I must do my task, which, in this case, English task, to post every task I’ve done in class in this blog, as I did previously before.

In the English class, I explained this phenomenal phenomenon known as ‘midnight sun’.Its name literally means the phenomenon, which is sun appearing in midnight. Pretty crazy, huh? How can we even see the sun in midnight, whereas it sets earlier than midnight?

 Source : http://anotherphotogallery.com/europe/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/midnight-sun.jpg

As a matter of fact, we don’t. Let me finish, what I meant by that is that we, who lived somewhere outside the Arctic Circle or Antartic Circle can never experience this phenomenon. Why? It happens thanks to the earth’s tilt of 23.5° and the sun’s apparent movement. To understand more of how it happens, you can watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUsWUiVCq5U.

To those of you who’re lazy enough or having connection problems, the video contains experiment of the phenomenon. A tilted globe (represents Earth) is shone by a giant flashlight (represents Sun). When we rotate, and at the same time, observe the Arctic Circle region, believe it or not, we can see the ‘sunlight’ is endless, meaning you can always see the sun in the Arctic Circle.

Okay, I must fix what I stated before ‘You can always see the sun in the Arctic Circle’. Well, you don’t always see the sun in the Arctic Circle, since it happened during summer. As some of us believe, God is always fair and just. You see, the phenomenon also has a black twin, (and I mean it literally) which is polar night. Polar night is a phenomenon when we don’t see sun no matter what time it was of the day. It happened during winter, so you may put it like this in what I’d reckon ‘the poetic way’: as the cold keeps us shivering, the sun is nowhere to be seen!

I think it’s pretty interesting for me, you know, as a ‘tropical’ being who’s tired of getting sunlight all year. Maybe sometimes, when I’m capable, I’d very much like to see for myself that amazing scenery.