Every once in a while we see an aurora photograph that looks more like aliens than northern lights.
This is one of them. It probably wasn't photo-shopped (because why?) but there's no obvious explanation. Turns out there's a lot about space we don't understand yet, The Washington Post reported.
When a group of "aurora chasers" in Canada would see this bright arc, they didn't know what to call it either. So they named it Steve.
Now scientists are actually looking into what causes the phenomenon, which means it will probably get an overly-technical science name but hopefully people will keep calling it Steve anyways.
Aurora are caused by geomagnetic storms which occur when the sun blasts high-energy particles toward Earth.