Dec 11, 2017

SPACE | Dec 7, 2017 | Blood Red Skies Over China Explained 300 Years Later | .. On Sept. 10, 1770, the skies above China, Korea and Japan turned an eerie red, and for eight more nights these glowing red auroras lingered. For nearly three centuries, this mysterious event was lost to history. Now, researchers poring through palace diaries and other historical documents from East Asia have rediscovered the bizarre phenomenon, and have proposed a likely cause: A giant magnetic storm that rivaled the most powerful one on record, the so-called Carrington Event of 1859. (Geomagnetic storms occur when solar eruptions hit Earth's magnetosphere, the shell of electrically charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field.) If a similarly massive magnetic storm hit Earth now, it could wreak havoc on power grids around the planet, researchers said. [The Sun's Wrath: The Worst Solar Storms in History]... | Blogger: Please remember, that Space.com and Live Science.com are state sponsered sites, on which feature is pseudoscience based (maybe)... |

Red Aurora Over Hillside Residence Anchorage, Alaska, from February 2002Credit: Alamy

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