New atmospheric/space phenomenon?

[p1t1o]

I know Im getting this from...ahem...gizmodo :shame: but here you go anyway:

http://gizmodo.com/what-the-hell-is-this-beautiful-thing-1794528895

 

[Green Baron]

Hm, i am not a specialist in northern lights, but it looks like an aurora to me. There seem to be more of them to the right under the horizon. As to the color, what's wrong with pink ? The color may be not reproduce correctly on it's way from chip over pc through web to monitor. Also it seems to be a (admirable) artist's work.

Edit: oh ! it made it on the esa site: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/When_Swarm_met_Steve

tl:dr from the esa text: It's a hot ribbon of gas flowing at a high speed in a height of about 300km.

“It turns out that Steve is actually remarkably common, but we hadn’t noticed it before. It’s thanks to ground-based observations, satellites, today’s explosion of access to data and an army of citizen scientists joining forces to document it."

 

Edited April 21, 2017 by Green Baron

[p1t1o]

Well here's hoping they retain the suggested name for this particular phenomena

[Shpaget]

I don't mind Steve, but I hate bacronyms.

Steve (high altitude thermal vortex) is just fine.

Steve (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) is puke.

 

[SuperFastJellyfish]

23 minutes ago, Shpaget said:

I don't mind Steve, but I hate bacronyms.

Steve (high altitude thermal vortex) is just fine.

Steve (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) is puke.

 

Yeah, forcing the acronym is painful, at best.    I wonder if this phenomenon can lead to an explanation for why the sun's corona is so hot.

[Mikki]

I`d prever "Jussi". (Joe) in finnish. Jussi is sometimes around here .