Meet Steve, your new favorite astro**mical phe**me**n
 

Meet Steve, your new favorite astro**mical phe**me**n
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Say hello to Steve.*

Steve isn't a person. Steve is actually the u**fficial name of a mysterious purple streak of light observed by some social media savvy skywatchers keeping an eye out for the **rthern lights.*

SEE ALSO: I am so unreasonably jealous of this view of the southern lights


The Alberta Aurora Chasers — a Facebook group devoted to the **rthern lights — caught sight of Steve in photos taken of the curtains of the auroras (and decided to name him).*

The one issue is that ** one was quite sure what Steve was. That is, until a high-powered spacecraft got involved.*

One of the three European Space Agency's Swarm satellites actually flew through a Steve phe**me**n, according to Eric Do**van of the University of Calgary.* Read more...

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