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المملكة: Tomorrow .. “Suhail” shines at dawn, declaring the countdown to the end of the summer


The President of The Astronomical Society in Jeddah , Eng. Majid Abu Zahrah, that the dawn of the twenty -fourth of August of each year witnesses an astronomical scene that the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula wait through history, where the star of Suhail appears with his white yellowish brightness from the southern horizon, to announce the beginning of the countdown to the end of the summer. Its appearance with the palace of daylight hours, the decline in the angle of sunlight falling, and the decrease in temperatures at night gradually, at a time when the sun begins its journey to the south after it was vertical at the height of the summer. The southern rule, indicating that if the Yemeni poetry was distanced, it would have been the most sparkling stars in the sky of the night." target ="_Blank"> The weather scientifically, the star is not a reason for climatic changes, but it is a synchronous astronomical indication of the natural transformations resulting from the movement of the Earth around the sun, and it is a “cosmic clock” indicating the approaching of the autumn moderation. To some regions of North Africa, while the regions of the northern Arabian Peninsula and the countries of the Levant remain deprived of watching his presence under the horizon throughout the year. Seasonal astronomical signs.

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