What is Stonehenge?

What even is stonehenge? For people living thousands of years ago, a solar eclipse must have been pretty terrifying, so its no wonder that there are several structures that seem to be built for watching the sun. However, we can only guess about the true purpose of stonehenge, since the builders did not leave a manual. #minuteeclipse #eclipse #stonehenge This Product is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASA’s Science Activation portfolio. The material contained in this document is based upon work supported by a National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) grant or cooperative agreement. Any questions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materials are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASA.

MinuteMinis

3 weeks ago

For people living thousands of years ago, the sun suddenly vanishing from the sky was a pretty alarming experience.So it's no wonder that ancient people came up with all sorts of different explanations for both solar and lunar eclipses and tried to understand when they might happen again. About 5000 years ago, people in what is now England lugged about a hundred massive stones through the countryside to build a structure we now call stonehenge. It is mostly composed of an inner ring of larg

e stones and an outer ring of smaller stones. And if you stand in the center of the rings, the sun appears to rise behind this stone on the summer solstice, which shows that stonehenge was built for watching the sky. There is also a ring of 56 post-holes surrounding the monument that, by moving posts from hole to hole around the circle to track the positions of the Sun and moon, could theoretically have been used to track the timing of lunar eclipses, but stonehenge’s builders didn’t leave

behind an instructions manual, so scientists still have a lot of questions about what the builders intentions were.