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Earth's "Milky Seas" (a luminescent nautical phenomenon) have been found in satellite data, and subsequently corroborated by sailors, for the first time. For centuries, sailors have told tales of nights when their ships would come across tens to hundreds of miles of seas that glow the color of milk.


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