1400 Year Old Mystery in Space Solved
Red Fan Skies Over Japan Source: Space Space Mystery Dating Back to 620 AD More than 1400 years ago, a dazzling red fan spread out across the skies over Japan, according to historical records. The phenomenon has been documented by modern day astronomers and has baffled them ever since. For the inhabitants of Japan in the year 620, the red skies were frightening. They called it a "strange red sign" in the sky. Astronomers and space weather experts, working at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan, have just determined that the red skies were an ethereal sky phenomenon. Pheasant Tail heasant Tail The scarlet fan-like light over Japan happened on December 30, 620. Those in Japan who saw it said it looked like a pheasant tail and many considered it a bad omen. For years, modern astronomers have considered it to have been a comet or an aurora. But, neither seemed to fit until now. Space Weather Japanese astronomers h