Author: Natasha Frost / Source: Atlas Obscura
There’s something about the name Steve. Variously a Flight of the Conchords punchline; a parody society of 1,425 scientists who “support evolution”; and the human second fiddle to Blue’s Clues’ Blue, it now has another, more celestial, claim to fame.
Steve is an aurora: a vast, glowing ribbon of light in the night sky, lit up a brilliant lilac and kelly green. This week, the BBC reports, the mysterious aurora made an appearance in Scotland, where it was sighted on the remote isles of Skye and Lewis.Steve is perhaps the greatest astronomical discovery by citizen scientists of all time. Spotted by a group of aurora watchers from Alberta, Canada, in 2017, it made its official scientific debut last…
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