A Red Aurora In Japan In 1770 May Have Been The Biggest Geomagnetic Storm In History
Scientists say that a ruby-red aurora observe in Kyoto , Japan , 250 years ago may have been the largest geomagnetic violent storm in register chronicle , eclipsing one in 1859 that previously hold the book . Researchers from Tokyo ’s National Institute of Japanese Literature ( NIJL ) and National Institute for Polar Research ( NIPR ) looked at a painting from a Japanese manuscript calledSeikai(“understanding comet " ) , which also included commentary on a red morning above Kyoto on September 17 , 1770 ....