On January 11, 1787, the English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered two moons at Uranus! Oberon and Titania were the first two Uranian moons ever discovered. The finding came just six ...

200 years before Queen’s Brian May became an astrophysicist, William and Caroline Herschel set aside their musical instruments to build telescopes and discover comets, galaxies—and even a planet.

William Herschel discovered a new planet with a telescope of his own design—and an assist from his sister Caroline. On March 13, 1781, William Herschel looked through his telescope and saw ...

William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet. “The name of the City of Sunderland Millennium Orchestra Society (CoSMOS), originally conceived, by John Lennox, ...

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 ...

HAYNES, WILLIAM HERSCHEL, 79, passed away Saturday, December 20, 2003 in Orlando, FL. Mr. Haynes is retired from AAI and Lockheed Martin as an Electrical Engineer and served in the United States Na… ...

Coelorum Perrupit Claustra 1738 William Herschel 1822 Alibi Sepultus. The Latin translates as: He broke through the confines of the heavens. Buried elsewhere. He lies at St Laurence's church, Upton, ...

AT the age of thirty-five years, William Herschel, a distinguished and prosperous musician, was impelled to explore the heavens. He found a small telescope which he had hired insufficient for his ...

IN the valuable discourse on Sir William Herschel delivered at the Royal Institution on April 26 by Sir George Darwin, the well-known story of the desertion of the young bandsman from the ...

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.