{"id":211004,"date":"2025-04-09T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/with-new-database-researchers-may-be-able-to-predict-rare-milky-seas-bioluminescent-event"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:08:19","slug":"with-new-database-researchers-may-be-able-to-predict-rare-milky-seas-bioluminescent-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/with-new-database-researchers-may-be-able-to-predict-rare-milky-seas-bioluminescent-event","title":{"rendered":"With new database, researchers may be able to predict rare \u2018milky seas\u2019 bioluminescent event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/with-new-database-researchers-may-be-able-to-predict-rare-milky-seas-bioluminescent-event.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For generations, sailors around the globe have reported a mysterious phenomenon: Vast areas of the ocean glow steadily at night, sometimes for months on end. The light is bright enough to read by and is oddly similar to the green and white aura cast by glow-in-the-dark stars that have decorated children\u2019s rooms. Stretching over ocean space as broad as 100,000 square kilometers, the light can, at times, even be seen from space.<\/p>\n<p>This rare bioluminescent display was coined by sailors as \u201cmilky seas.\u201d Despite being encountered for centuries, scientists still know very little about what causes this glowing effect because they are quite rare\u2014they usually occur in the remote regions of the Indian Ocean, far from human eyes. A likely theory is that the glow comes from activity by a luminous microscopic bacteria called Vibrio harveyi.<\/p>\n<p>To better predict when milky seas will occur, researchers at Colorado State University have compiled a database of sightings over the last 400 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For generations, sailors around the globe have reported a mysterious phenomenon: Vast areas of the ocean glow steadily at night, sometimes for months on end. The light is bright enough to read by and is oddly similar to the green and white aura cast by glow-in-the-dark stars that have decorated children\u2019s rooms. Stretching over ocean [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211004","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}