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Richard Christopher Carrington

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British astronomer (1826-1875)

ScientistsLived 1826 to 1875 · aged 49
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Richard Christopher Carrington was an English astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun.

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