Prof.
Samantha Thompson
(National Air and Space Museum - Smithsonian Institution)
The colorful, dancing lights of the northern and southern aurora have fascinated scientists, but because of their evolving and fleeting nature, they have eluded detailed study by most of our observational instrumentation. The visual observer could not draw or paint the aurora fast enough to capture their ethereal nature. In 1892, German astronomer Martin Brendel was the first to photograph the...
