An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his telescope when he spotted the planet ...

On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. Before Herschel discovered Uranus, other astronomers had seen it before, but no one realised it was a ...

CAROLINE HERSCHEL: Are they recording? William, press record will you? WILLIAM HERSCHEL: We are rolling, Caz, chill out. CAROLINE HERSCHEL: Oh hello SciTubers! I am Caroline Herschel and this ...

William Herschel inadvertently discovered infrared radiation. He blackened the end of a sensitive mercury thermometer and utilized it in a measuring system to examine the heating properties of unique ...