Why isn't Hisako Koyama more famous? #shorts

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1944 an amateur astronomer pointed a

telescope toward the sky and began

drawing the sun's shifting surface

little did she know these sketches were

the start of one of the most important

records of solar activity in human

history she was the woman who stared at

the Sun and her name was hisako koyama

over four decades and ten thousand

meticulous drawings hisako koyama's

Sunspot sketches helped scientists

reconstruct 400 years of sunspot

activity dating all the way back to the

days of Galileo

learn more about this incredible

astronomer on our Channel