John Frederick William Herschel was a man of many talents. Born in England during the late 18th century, he was an accomplished mathematician, chemist, and inventor. He created the Julian Day ...

On January 11, 1787, the English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered two moons at Uranus! Oberon and Titania were the first two Uranian moons ever discovered. The finding came just six ...

Remarkably, a paper presented to the Royal Society in December 1797 by the then Kings Astronomer, Sir William Herschel, (who had discovered Uranus in 1781), includes a description of a possible ...

More than 230 years ago astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and two of its moons. Using the Herschel Space Observatory, a group of astronomers led by Örs H. Detre of the Max ...

William’s son, Sir John Herschel, also produced a catalog of nonstellar objects. These catalogs often overlapped and were not always consistent in their listings.