Explore the intriguing connection between the green and red aurora lights and the enigmatic gray-toned emissions.
Northern lights were a regular sight over the Adirondacks through the past year and should continue to be in 2025.
"You'd see this structured—almost like a patch—grey-toned or white toned-emission connected to the aurora," said researcher Emma Spanswick.
Researchers have uncovered the nature of a mysterious whitish, grey patch that often appears alongside the aurora borealis.
A newly compiled dataset of nearly one billion images of auroras is helping researchers categorize—and perhaps ultimately ...
The lights appear within what is known as an aurora oval, a belt that roughly rings the Earth’s geomagnetic poles, said ...
Ever wonder what the northern lights look like from space? Thanks to NASA astronaut Don Pettit, you can see for yourself.
A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has been explained for the first ...
In my part of Alaska, not far from Anchorage, winter solstice is always a dark day, but not because of the lack of light.
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is known for a stunning spectacle of light in the night sky, but this near-Earth manifestation, which is caused by explosive activity on the sun and carried by ...
The researchers created a novel algorithm to sort through the THEMIS all-sky images (ASI) from 2008 to 2022 and efficiently annotate them using six distinct categories—arc, diffuse, discrete, cloudy, ...
It's been years since I thought about Alaska. Recently, I pondered our time in the Last Frontier, courtesy of the Army.