William Herschel was a British scientist and astronomer who lived and studied during the late 18th century. He had a particular fascination with space and everything it contained, and he made it his goal to understand “the construction of the heavens”. The search for new astronomical objects during Herschel’s time was huge, and at one point during his studies, he began to become very intrigued by the discovery of nebulae. This interest of Herschel was partly due to the studies of another fellow astronomer in France by the name of Charles Messier. Messier was a comet hunter and accidently stumbled across several nebulae during his searches. These discoveries greatly piqued Herschel’s interest to continue to search the skies. However, on the
