The topic I chose was the discovery of the planet Uranus. Uranus was discovered on March 13, 1781 by an astronomer by the name of Sir William Herschel. One night as William Herschel was studying stars that were too distant to see with the human eye he noticed an object that moved in front of all the other stars. Further investigation led to the idea that the object was actually another planet slowly revolving around the sun. That was the discovery of Uranus. What’s really intriguing was that other astronomers had actually been viewing Uranus since about 1690, but they had no idea it was another planet until Hershel identified it for them. After the discovery, Herschel claimed that the planet should be named Georgium Sidus. The astronomical
