More than a month before the onset of winter, there is a place on Earth where the sun goes down to make way for the longest night ...

All October 28, starts the polar night in Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard islands, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean just 1,000 km from the Geographic North Pole.

This day begins the period known as polar twilight, where a small light on the horizon makes the sky turns dark in many shades of blue.

But from November 11 the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon and the sky becomes so dark that the days seem nights. That day begins Civil polar night that lasts until January 30 and that affects all places of the world above 72 degrees of latitude.

So, the Svalbard islands and its capital, the small town of Longyearbyen, become one of the few inhabited places on Earth where occurs this peculiar phenomenon of endless night.