A whitish, gray patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has been explained for the first ...

Sometimes, a glowing, whitish-gray patch appears in the sky next to the northern lights. Researchers at the University of ...

Researchers have uncovered the nature of a mysterious whitish, grey patch that often appears alongside the aurora borealis.

Explore the intriguing connection between the green and red aurora lights and the enigmatic gray-toned emissions.

The mysterious white-grey streak in the sky that appears alongside the Northern Lights has been explained by scientists for ...

Scientists have finally decoded the mystery behind a whitish, grey patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside ...

A whitish, grey blur that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the celestial display has been deciphered by ...

"You'd see this structured—almost like a patch—grey-toned or white toned-emission connected to the aurora," said researcher Emma Spanswick.

The lights appear within what is known as an aurora oval, a belt that roughly rings the Earth’s geomagnetic poles, said ...

Spanswick says the white patch has been referenced in scientific papers before, but it has never been explained. Her team’s ...