Ancient Chinese text reveals earliest know record of a candidate aurora
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Enlarge / Auroral display over snow-capped mountains in Hangzhou, China. (credit: Liu Míng Sun/EyeEm/Getty Images) …
Enlarge / Auroral display over snow-capped mountains in Hangzhou, China. (credit: Liu Míng Sun/EyeEm/Getty Images) …
Such historical records of celestial events can help astronomers track and model patterns of space weather
How dating an ancient text revealed one of the oldest observations of aurora known. It’s one of the greatest sky spectacles…
The oldest known evidence referring to a “celestial aurora event” from a section of the famous Bamboo Annals Chinese text dated…