Toroid
Founding Member
Steve appears as a neon purplish or green strip across the night sky and can be seen in Canada.
There’s a stunning celestial phenomenon that’s officially named “Steve”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ9yB9omgt4
There’s a stunning celestial phenomenon that’s officially named “Steve”
Written by
Lila MacLellan
March 16, 2018
The saga of Steve continues. And this time, the northern lights-like celestial phenomenon is being officially recognized by research published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.
Steve looks like a neon purplish or green strip across the night sky, and it’s visible in Canada, though it’s not a streak of the aurora borealis. When Steve appears, it’s moving from east to West, and might be visible anywhere from Ontario to Alaska. It travels at about 4 miles per second, but appears static from the ground, and is routinely spotted at latitudes far further south than traditional northern lights.
Scientists identified the arc-shaped ribbon as an extremely hot (up to 10,000 degrees F), 16-mile thick river of ionized gas, about 200 miles above the earth’s surface. But much about Steve remains mysterious, even following the publication of the new study led by Elizabeth MacDonald, a space physicist at NASA. The researchers know that Steve is similar to a subauroral ion drift (SAID), except they are normally invisible to the naked eye.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ9yB9omgt4