See ya, sun! Alaska’s North Slope gets last sunrise until January

The sun will set in Alaska’s North Slope this afternoon, but it will not rise above the horizon until late January.Today begins 24 hours of darkness for many areas within the Arctic Circle, a time period known as the polar night.Utqiaġvik (Barrow) won’t see the sun for a period of more than 60 days.These higher latitudes are bathed in darkness during the winter months as the northern hemisphere rotates away from the sun due to the tilt of the Earth’s axis.
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