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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...

New findings reveal the northern lights have been fascinating mankind since 977 or 957 B.C.

The oldest documented observation of an aurora may be in an ancient Chinese text.

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.

The oldest documented observation of an aurora may be in an ancient Chinese text.

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...

A celestial event mentioned in an ancient Chinese text turns out to be the oldest known reference to a candidate aurora, predating the next oldest one by some three centuries. A celestial event mentioned in an ancient Chinese text turns out to be...