The old Chinese document called the Bamboo Annals, or Zhushu Jinian in Mandarin provided surprising new insights, including the record of the "five-colored light" which was found to be consistent with a large geomagnetic storm.
Researchers may have discovered the earliest known record of an aurora. The reference to a "five-colored light" in the northern sky is nestled in the scrolls of the.
A team of scientists said an ancient Chinese text describes the oldest known record of what we would call an aurora borealis, or “the northern lights”, which they believe happened in the 10th century BC, or about 300 years before the next chronicle of the celestial event from the Assyrians. The text was found in the Bamboo Annals , a.