Space Exploration

William Herschel Discovers the Planet Uranus

William Herschel, an amateur astronomer, discovered Uranus while conducting a survey of stars from his garden in Bath, England. Using a telescope he had made himself, he initially believed he had found a comet due to the planet's faintness and slow movement across the sky. Herschel's finding marked the first time a planet was discovered with a telescope, expanding the known boundaries of our solar system and fundamentally altering our understanding of the celestial realm.

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