This Alaskan town just witnessed its last sunrise for nearly three months. Time-lapse footage from the National Weather Service shows the sun dipping below the horizon at 1:48 AM AKDT (9:48 AM BST) on Sunday (10 May), briefly reappearing at 2:57 AM (10:57 AM BST). In Utqiagvik, Alaska, that fleeting moment marked the start of a remarkable 84-day stretch of uninterrupted daylight, officially opening the Arctic's midnight sun season. The sun will not set again until August 2 in the northernmost city in the U.S. Every summer, Earth's axial tilt draws the Northern Hemisphere closer to the sun, pushing daylight hours to their extreme across northern Alaska until darkness simply disappears.