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Awesome woman, and a fascinating family!

I'm no expert, so excuse my ignorance: Wasn't the "origin" of auroras know long before her time? I recall reading about Kristian Birkeland's terrella experiment where he demonstrated how the earths magnetic field would "focus" particles from the sun around the poles.

Of course, this does not change the fact that she was a great scientist, and did important discoveries about aroras and astronomy in general.