English Dictionary

STEVE

名詞

不可算名詞

An aurora-like light found in southern Canada (consistently lower latitude, unlike the aurora borealis which is generally high latitude), composed of a glowing purple ribbon of light, with green spikes coming off obliquely parallel to each other, moving at about 6.5 km/s East to West. Presumably occurs in the southern hemisphere as well.

日本語の意味

南カナダ（および南半球でも観測される可能性がある）で見られる、オーロラに類似した光の現象。低緯度で発生し、紫色の輝く帯状の光と、それに斜め並行に伸びる緑色のスパイク状の光が約6.5km/sの速度で東から西へ移動する現象を指す。

Photographers rushed outside when STEVE appeared as a glowing purple ribbon with parallel green spikes stretching obliquely across the southern Canadian sky.

写真家たちは、南カナダの空にオーロラのような紫色に輝くリボン状の光が現れ、斜めに平行して伸びる緑色の突起が付き、秒速約6.5キロメートルで動いているのを見て急いで外に駆け出した。

意味（1）

An aurora-like light found in southern Canada (consistently lower latitude, unlike the aurora borealis which is generally high latitude), composed of a glowing purple ribbon of light, with green spikes coming off obliquely parallel to each other, moving at about 6.5 km/s East to West. Presumably occurs in the southern hemisphere as well.

Although STEVE has been documented by amateur night sky watchers for decades, it is an exciting new upper atmospheric phenomenon for the scientific community.