EXPLAINER: When is Manhattanhenge? Where can you see it? ...Middle East

NEW YORK (AP) — Didn't make it to Stonehenge for the solstice? There's still time to catch Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and bathes the urban canyons in a rosy glow. The last two Manhattanhenge sunsets of 2022 are Monday and Tuesday. Some background on the phenomenon: WHERE DOES THE NAME MANHATTANHENGE COME FROM? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term in a 1997 article in the magazine Natural History. Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York's American Museum of Natural History, has said that he was inspired by a visit to Stonehenge as a teenager. The future host of TV shows like PBS' "Nova ScienceNow" was part of an

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