{"id":203540,"date":"2025-01-11T05:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/what-is-that-scientists-explain-white-patch-that-appears-near-northern-lights"},"modified":"2025-01-11T05:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:10:07","slug":"what-is-that-scientists-explain-white-patch-that-appears-near-northern-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/what-is-that-scientists-explain-white-patch-that-appears-near-northern-lights","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What is that?\u2019 Scientists explain white patch that appears near northern lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-that-scientists-explain-white-patch-that-appears-near-northern-lights3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has been explained for the first time by researchers at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>The article, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-55081-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on Dec. 30 in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, explores a \u201cstructured continuum emission\u201d that\u2019s associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/aurora+borealis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">aurora borealis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d see this dynamic green aurora, you\u2019d see some of the red aurora in the background and, all of a sudden, you\u2019d see this structured\u2014almost like a patch\u2014gray-toned or white toned-emission connected to the aurora,\u201d says Dr. Emma Spanswick, Ph.D., lead author on the paper and an associate professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has been explained for the first time by researchers at the University of Calgary. The article, which was published on Dec. 30 in the journal Nature Communications, explores a \u201cstructured continuum emission\u201d that\u2019s associated with aurora borealis. \u201cYou\u2019d see this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}