by Graham Pierrepoint - The origin of a strip of light spotted in the night sky is still being investigated ..
The natural world is amazing – it continues to baffle, astound and to inspire us all, especially those who are keen to look more than a little closely at what is unfolding around us. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, are some of the wildest and most captivating natural sights you’ll find in our skies – and it seems that one strand of light in particular is receiving more notice than normal due to its odd location and the fact that even the keenest of skygazers are struggling to figure out exactly what it is. Further to this, it’s been named rather humbly – ‘Steve’.
Steve is a lone strip of light that has been found further south than the Northern Lights which has set certain scientific tongues wagging as they try to uncover exactly where he has come from. Is he a remnant of a passing meteor? Or is he perhaps a long-lost cousin of the Aurora Borealis? No one’s really sure – but after a Facebook group started noticing that Steve was appearing in more and more photos shared between keen light-spotters, an investigation into the light strip phenomenon was mounted.
Steve is thought to be thousands of miles long and is travelling at a pace of around 4 miles per hour through the sky – and while he may appear to the untrained eye as little more than a simple strand hanging in the air, photographs are showing an entirely different picture altogether. Professor Eric Donovan, at the University of Calgary, was keen to advise that the discovery and investigation into Steve’s nature was still very much unfolding – and that discussion and intrigue over his appearance has provided a rather nice link between social media and the scientific community at large.
The strip of light will stay named Steve, it is thought, until more is learned about exactly what he is. Further thorough investigations by Donovan et al, who have been able to determine that the strip could be as hot as the Earth’s core, could continue for a few months before we know exactly what we are looking at. Will the Steve moniker stick, though? For some of those who have been ingrained in the Facebook group from the start, perhaps, it will be hard to let the rather humble name go – but at least we will soon hopefully have more of an idea of what he is doing in the skies above Canada, and why!
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