On this day in 1942 pioneering Bitish physicist and radio astronomer James Stanley discovered the radio emissions coming from the sun, almost by accident, in the course of his work for the united kingdom Army Operational research Group during World War II.
Hey studied physics at Manchester University followed by a master degree in X ray Crystallography which he completed in 1931. In early 1942 Hey received reports of severe noise jamming of anti craft radars.
After some investigations he realized that the direction of this interference appeared to be following the sun and So he suspected that it might be a result of unusual stellar activity rather than Nazi ingenuity.
He consulted the Royal Observatory and was informed about the very active sunspot traversing the solar disc emitting powerful streams of energetic ions and electrons. Thats how he concluded correctly that it was sun which was emitting radiation..:)
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