But before he surveyed the sky, he was a prolific musician. By Hugh Morris Within the four-square opening of William Herschel’s Symphony No. 8 is a phrase that sounds like one of the delicately ...

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.

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.

In the northern part of the constellation you’ll find NGC 7008, sometimes called the Fetus Nebula due to its unusual shape.

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 Uranus.

German-born British astronomer Sir William Herschel is best remembered for discovering Uranus in 1781 as well as other celestial bodies, then infrared radiation in 1800. Many of these discoveries ...

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 ...

Caroline was the sister, housekeeper, unpaid assistant and finally salaried professional partner of her far more famous sibling William Herschel. William discovered the planet Uranus from ...

John Frederick William Herschel was a man of many talents. Born in England during the late 18th century, he was an accomplished mathematician, chemist, and inventor. He created the Julian Day ...