Researchers Solve Millennia-Old Mystery of Bright Nights

😟 53.3 😒 10.5 😊 8.2 😐 7.1 😖 5.9 😐 5.6 😠 5.3 Dating back to the first century CE, philosophers, scientists, and reporters have noted the occasional occurrence of the phenomena known as bright nights, when an unexplained glow in the night-time skies lets observers see distant mountains and read newspapers. A new study from York University, Canada, uses thermospheric data from the Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII), [...]