Jan 20, 2025 · Several years ago, a greyish-mauve sweep of light, affectionately named Steve by aurora enthusiasts (retrospectively transformed into an acronym for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement), presented physicists with a mystery to solve.

Jan 20, 2025 · Meet the latest cosmic mystery catching scientists' attention: weird gray patches photobombing the Northern Lights! While most of us know auroras for their dazzling greens and reds, these ghostly gray intruders have been crashing the celestial party, leaving researchers scratching their heads.

5 days ago · A purple wave of faulty streetlights has swept across the USA, generating incorrect theories, bad lighting and fans of an accidental aesthetic.

For decades people have told of an eerie light that has preceded a large quake or accompanied it. We're seeing our nation in a whole new, eerie light thanks to this show revealing all the weird …

Jan 20, 2025 · Making use of the new spectral data, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Calgary in Canada might at last have a solution in sky chemistry, likening the bleached islands of white and grey to the recently described meteorological oddity with the relatively whimsical name ‘STEVE’.

Located on a dirt road, it is a light that may appear and disappear at random during the dark of night without explanation. There are different beliefs as far as what the ghostly light could be, such as swamp gas and similar natural occurrences.

Feb 1, 2025 · In the dead of night, along a dirt road in the nearby pine forest following abandoned railroad tracks, people have observed mysterious lights, bobbing up and down, pulsing with a pale blue, green or orange hue. Along the tracks, the story goes, a woman waited for her husband, a railroad worker, to return.

Feb 1, 2025 · Eerie Light Haunts a Southern Town. It May Come From Under the Earth. A seismologist thinks natural phenomena could explain the Summerville Light and other mysteries around a South Carolina...

May 18, 2023 · “Earthlight” is caused by sunlight reflecting off Earth’s oceans and ice. It tends to be brightest between April and June, according to NASA. Also called “Earthshine,” “Planetshine” and “Da Vinci...

Dec 7, 2016 · Seeing the “eerie” light — often described as intensely bright floating balls — has been said to reduce grown men to tears. It’s just one example of the folklore that has grown around them.