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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/steve-aurora-makes-its-debut-mauve
Meet STEVE, a newfound type of aurora that drapes the sky with a mauve ribbon and bedazzling green bling.
This feature of the northern lights, recently photographed and named by citizen scientists in Canada, now has a scientific explanation. The streak of color, which appears to the south of the main aurora, may be a visible version of a typically invisible process involving drifting charged particles, or ions, physicist Elizabeth MacDonald and colleagues report March 14 in Science Advances.
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Beautiful new phenomenon. Interestingly mauve was the name of the color produced by the first synthetic dyestuff discovered by William Perkin in the 19th Century & became a fashion hit during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Meet STEVE, a newfound type of aurora that drapes the sky with a mauve ribbon and bedazzling green bling.
This feature of the northern lights, recently photographed and named by citizen scientists in Canada, now has a scientific explanation. The streak of color, which appears to the south of the main aurora, may be a visible version of a typically invisible process involving drifting charged particles, or ions, physicist Elizabeth MacDonald and colleagues report March 14 in Science Advances.
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Beautiful new phenomenon. Interestingly mauve was the name of the color produced by the first synthetic dyestuff discovered by William Perkin in the 19th Century & became a fashion hit during the reign of Queen Victoria.