{"id":214326,"date":"2025-05-20T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bright-streak-appears-over-us-during-aurora-storm-mystifying-skywatchers"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:13:22","slug":"bright-streak-appears-over-us-during-aurora-storm-mystifying-skywatchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/bright-streak-appears-over-us-during-aurora-storm-mystifying-skywatchers","title":{"rendered":"Bright Streak Appears Over US During Aurora Storm, Mystifying Skywatchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bright-streak-appears-over-us-during-aurora-storm-mystifying-skywatchers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the night of Saturday 17 May, skywatchers across the US as far south <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=05&year=2025\">as New Mexico<\/a> were treated to a peculiar sight: a brilliant stream of whitish light, stretching across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>That was a night for auroral activity, as Earth\u2019s magnetic field was buffeted by an influx of particles ejected from the Sun several days earlier. Initially, explanations favored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-figured-out-what-causes-steve-the-mysterious-purple-not-aurora\">STEVE<\/a>, the name given to the white-mauve streaks of light emitted by rivers of charged particles flowing through Earth\u2019s ionosphere.<\/p>\n<p>STEVE is not an aurora, but, like the auroral displays it often appears alongside, is also a product of space weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of Saturday 17 May, skywatchers across the US as far south as New Mexico were treated to a peculiar sight: a brilliant stream of whitish light, stretching across the sky. That was a night for auroral activity, as Earth\u2019s magnetic field was buffeted by an influx of particles ejected from the Sun [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214326","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=214326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}