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.

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.

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 ...

Still, that’s what we almost had. Yes, really. The discovery of Planet George. In March 1781, in Bath, England, the astronomer William Herschel became the first person to recognize what we now ...

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 ...

FARGO — William Herschel was a famous astronomer most well known for discovering the planet Uranus, the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. He was playing with prisms and ...

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 ...

When Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens published his detailed sketches and drawings of the Orion Nebula’s (M42) ... (Great gulf) from British astronomer William Herschel. ...

Happy anniversary to Uranus! On this day, 238 years ago, the planet was discovered by German-born astronomer William Herschel. Here's some trivia on the seventh planet from the sun: Uranus is four ...

Named after the great 18th century British astronomer William Herschel, it will search a vast array of galaxies collecting radiation that emits from protostars, ...