Exploring the Neighbourhood – the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter

Abstract

The idea that the Sun may emit radio waves has a long history. As Woody Sullivan (1982) has shown in his Classics in Radio Astronomy, the idea first gained credence in the 1890s, but initial searches by a number of different investigators proved fruitless (e.g. see Débarbat et al. (2007) for details of Nordmann’s search in 1901). Success would come half-century later, thanks largely to the development of wartime radar.