Summer Solstice 2013 is here, June 21, when at 05:04 UTC (01:04 a.m. EDT), the Sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky, and leaving us with the longest day of the year. In order to celebrate the event, Google Doodle is all summery and celebratory of the change in seasons.
Since the Summer solstice happens in the middle of the night here in the United States, that means Thursday and Friday are about the same length.
Although you may have been feeling the heat for some time now, today marks the official first day of summer, an occasion Google is celebrating with one of their famous Google Doodles. The animation of sports, friendship and awkward bathing suit moments encapsulates summer the way that only a Doodle can do.
Friday's Google Doodle was created by illustrator Christoph Niemann, who has also created the Google Doodle for the first day of winter. In 2011, Google celebrated the summer solstice with Murakami art.
Niemann was born in Germany and is well known for writing and illustrating the New York Times blog Abstract Sunday. His work has also appeared on the covers of the New Yorker, Time and Wired.
The Summer solstice has typically drawn a wide and varied crowd to the mysterious set of standing stones whose purpose remains unclear.
