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The Place Where the Sun Never Sets — and Never Rises

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At the North Cape in Norway, the Sun stays up for over two months in summer — and stays down for about two months in winter. The reason is Earth's 23.5-degree tilt: in summer the North Pole leans towards the Sun, in winter it leans away. And polar night isn't pitch black — around noon the sky still glows blue.

Sources: Visit Norway (North Cape midnight sun 14 May–29 Jul, polar night 21 Nov–21 Jan); OpenStax Astronomy 2e §4.2 (Earth's 23.5° axial tilt, Arctic Circle 66.5°N). Footage: Wikimedia Commons — "Midnight sun at the Nordkapp Globe Monument 2024-07-22" by Stjepko Krehula (CC BY 4.0); "North Cape seen from Knivskjelvika" by Frankemann (CC BY-SA 4.0); "Midnight sun" by Yan Zhang (CC BY-SA 3.0); "Morketidettermiddag" by Osopolar (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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