Science By Jason Junior Last updated Apr 15, 2022 0 Share (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); One of the variant fragments of the Bamboo Annals, an excerpt from the “Ancient Text of the Bamboo Annals” cited in (b) Tàipíng Yùl?n (????, v. 874, f. 4b; MS Nu-3. Credit: National Diet Library of Japan 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, according to a recent study by Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs, an independent researcher based in Canada,...