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Sep 4, 2012 · Astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution) A musical beginning. Born in Germany as Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, the astronomer was the...
Jul 3, 2019 · William Herschel was an accomplished astronomer and musician. He focused his work on charting double stars and is best known for discovering planet Uranus.
Sir William Herschel was a German-born British astronomer and composer, who is widely credited as the founder of sidereal astronomy for observing the heavenly bodies. He found the planet Uranus and its two moons, and formulated a theory of stellar evolution.
In 1785 William Herschel was one of the most famous people on Earth, a self-taught astronomer and the first person in well over 2,000 years to add a new planet to the cosmos.
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Jun 8, 2018 · Herschel, Sir William (1738–1822) English astronomer, b. Germany. He discovered Uranus (1781) and later two satellites of Uranus (1787) and two of Saturn (1789). Herschel observed many double stars and more than 2000 nebulae and clusters, and published catalogues of them.
Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS ( / ˈhɜːrʃəl /; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel.
William Herschel was one of the first 'professional' astronomers, and discovered infrared radiation. His sister Caroline helped him to develop the modern mathematical approach to astronomy. Science & Exploration
