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Fun Facts About the Vernal Equinox

The first day of spring is the spring equinox. “Vernal” and “Equinox” are words in Latin meaning “spring” and “even at night” to understand.

Vernal Equinox is really the same?
The idea is that the first day of spring, there are exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness, but it rarely works that way. It is always a time each spring and fall when the hours of daylight and darkness are equal, but it is usually before the spring equinox and after the autumnal equinox.

First day of spring – above and below the equator
The spring equinox, which, on March 20 or 21 a year, and signals the start of spring in the northern hemisphere, is also the autumnal equinox, the first day of autumn and in the southern hemisphere. The reverse, the fall in the north, at the end of September, is the first day of spring, south of the equator.

Here are some other interesting facts about the first day of spring:

* If you were at the equator or during spring and fall, you will see the sun directly Overhead, only twice a year, if this is true.

* The two equinoxes are also the only time during the year, when the sun in the east and west is full.

* In spring, the axis of the Earth is tilted toward the sun, increasing the number of days and warmer weather that makes plants, new growth.

* It is a myth that the persistence of the spring equinox, and only at the spring equinox, we can get a raw egg on end. It is also a continuation of the rebuttal, which indicates that it is not possible at any time, for a raw egg on end. Neither assertion is true. With a little patience (or sometimes more), you can use a raw egg to balance at the end of each period of the year. The first day of spring has nothing to do.