Enlarge / Auroral display over snow-capped mountains in Hangzhou, China.Liu Míng Sun/EyeEm/Getty Images 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 posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2022, each day from December 25 through January 5. Today: New analysis of an ancient Chinese text revealed the earliest candidate aurora yet found, predating the next oldest by three centuries.
A pair of researchers has identified the earliest description of a candidate aurora yet found in
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