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In the late 19th century, the Royal Greenwich Observatory hired a team of 'lady computers' who studied data from the Sun, sunspots, and magnetic storms. One of them, Annie, married the head of the Solar department, Walter Maunder, and together they mapped patterns of sunspots over time


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