Planets and the stars have always fascinated me. Finding out how they were discovered is fascinating. We know that William Hershcel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. But, how did it happen? He was using his telescope to check for “’double stars’—two stars that are so close together that, without proper magnification, they look like one star”. Upon looking through the skies, he found a fuzzy disk. At first, he thought it was a comet because over the next few days he realized it had been moving. But then he realized it was moving too slowly to be a comet. Herschel realized that, “to be that bright and that far away, it had to be a planet.”
Herschel “compared his observations with two professional astronomers, neither had telescopes powerful
Herschel “compared his observations with two professional astronomers, neither had telescopes powerful