Solstice Standing Stones and Radio Telescope T-Shirt | Watching the Sky for Five Thousand Years

Stonehenge rises from Salisbury Plain in southern England, built in stages between roughly 3000 and 1500 BC. Its great stones are aligned on the solstices: on midsummer morning the sun rises over the Heel Stone, and at midwinter it sets in line with the tallest trilithon. For its builders, marking the turning of the year in stone was a matter of survival and of faith.

Some 4,500 years later Britain built a new kind of observatory. Completed in 1957 at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, its giant radio dish was for years the largest steerable telescope in the world and helped track the first space launches. This design sets the two together: the silhouetted stone circle glowing orange as the sun sinks behind it, long shadows reaching toward you, and a great white dish turned to the Milky Way above the plain.

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• Heavyweight: Comfort Colors 1717, 6.1 oz (206 g/m²) ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed for a soft, lived-in feel. Relaxed unisex fit; size down for a closer fit.
• Classic: Gildan 5000, 5.3 oz (180 g/m²) 100% cotton. Regular unisex fit. The same print, for less.

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Care: wash cold inside out, tumble dry low or hang dry, do not iron the print.