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William Herschel became famous after his discovery of Uranus in 1781, though he mistook the planet for a comet at first. At the beginning of her career, Caroline worked as William’s assistant.
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 ...
But how do scientists pronounce the name of the planet-and who named it that in the first place? Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the ...
Remarkably, a paper presented to the Royal Society in December 1797 by the then Kings Astronomer, Sir William Herschel, (who had discovered Uranus in 1781), includes a description of a possible ...
Everything started when the German-born British astronomer William Herschel, famous for discovering the planet Uranus, discovered infrared radiation in 1800.
First discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1789, Mimas is one of the many moons orbiting Saturn, according to NASA.It was not until 1980, when the spacecrafts Voyager I and II, and the ...
This galactic grouping, found about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans, was discovered by the English astronomer William Herschel in 1783.
Caroline Herschel worked with her brother William on many pursuits. (Image credit: A. Diethe/Wellcome Images via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) Caroline was a somewhat unwilling astronomer at first.
(THE CONVERSATION) Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may ...