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Passage in Bamboo Annals describes a "five-colored light" in 10th century BCE. There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of.
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.