On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus, was discovered completely by accident. An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his ...

William Herschel Discovered Uranus in 1781 . Frederick William Herschel was a British astronomer born in Germany circa 1738. Though telescopes were invented in 1608, Herschel constructed a large ...

Amateur astronomers asked to watch giant storm on distant planet. Nov. 2, 2011 — -- Something strange is happening on the planet Uranus. A fuzzy white spot has appeared on its frigid blue ...