A purple Steve in the Aurora Borealis. (Credit: NASA Goddard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSteve is a pretty boring name right? (sorry Steve). It was a bit strange then that some citizen scientists decided to name a brand new part of the aurora borealis, (one of the most beautiful phenomena on Earth) \u201cSteve\u201d. Then again, the citizen science project is itself called Aurorasaurus, so wacky names seem to be their thing. Steves are mysterious purple ribbons of light in the aurora that turned out to be caused by a strange interaction between charged particles and the Earth\u2019s magnetic field. We would have gone with something a bit more impressive sounding like \u201cMagneto Flashes\u201d ourselves.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
8. Your name here.<\/h3>\n
This list is just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless amazing discoveries just waiting for passionate citizen scientists to come along and find them. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are, or where you\u2019re from, someday you might stumble upon some strange new mystery that turns out to be a brand new discovery. One could even be waiting for you in our very own AstroQuest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Christian Polson-Brown There was a time when you needed a pretty fancy education, and access to a powerful telescope in order to make a new astronomy discovery. Thanks to technology and the spirit of cooperation those days are now in the past. Now anyone can make a new discovery, even from the comfort of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":730,"parent":21,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/sciencearticle.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/722\/revisions\/747"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroquest.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}