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Dr Chris Lintott was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific, where he discusses citizen science, astronomy, Galaxy Zoo, presenting The Sky at Night and working with the late Sir Patrick Moore.

Today we take it for granted that activity on the Sun causes colourful displays of the aurora (the ‘northern lights’ in the northern hemisphere; the ‘southern lights’ south of the equator).

The important role played by female photographic assistants in American astronomical observatories at the end of the nineteenth century is now well-known.