Even though the days are slowly getting longer after the winter solstice, sunrise in Washington, D.C. will actually keep happening later for the next two weeks! It’s not just your imagination—thanks to the Earth’s tilted axis and its slightly squished orbit, solar noon keeps shifting later each day. That means the sun rises later, even as sunset gets a bit later too. It’s a quirky side effect of how our planet moves through space. Anyone else feeling those extra-dark mornings? How do you cope with the long, slow return of the light? #Science #WashingtonDC #WinterSolstice