William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet. “The name of the City of Sunderland Millennium Orchestra Society (CoSMOS), originally conceived, by John Lennox, ...

200 years before Queen’s Brian May became an astrophysicist, William and Caroline Herschel set aside their musical instruments to build telescopes and discover comets, galaxies—and even a planet.

FARGO — William Herschel was a famous astronomer most well known for discovering the planet Uranus, the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. He was playing with prisms and ...

18th-century scientists William and Caroline Herschel discovered Uranus, infrared radiation and other celestial bodies. Now people are rediscovering Herschel's music.

William Herschel became famous after his discovery of Uranus in 1781, though he mistook the planet for a comet at first. At the beginning of her career, Caroline worked as William’s assistant.