A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Sir William Herschel (1738-1822) was born in Hanover and came to England in 1757, where he taught music in Leeds, Halifax and Bath. He devoted himself to the study of mathematics and astronomy, built ...

Apparently copied in reverse from an earlier (ca. 179-?) etching with lettering "View of Dr Herschel's forty feet telescope", which shows the same two figures in 18th-century costume, and some ...

Ever since 1784, when astronomer William Herschel proposed that Mars’s inhabitants “probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours”, we have been dreaming about Martian life.

That proof finally came in 1804, when eagle-eyed astronomer William Herschel noticed that the fainter of the two stars had shifted slightly in its position with respect to the brighter one. Herschel’s ...

Astronomer Sherry Suyu from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics on comet-hunter Caroline Herschel, the first salaried female ... It was only her older brother William who pulled her out of this ...

Christine Tarkowski’s work is as extravagantly conjured as its title, taken from the 18th-century British astronomer William Herschel. The startling presence of candy-colored hand blown glass boulders ...

This is barred spiral galaxy NGC 7479 located in the Pegasus constellation about 105 million light years and discovered in 1784 by the German astronomer William Herschel. Its central bar is ...

Or for short… WILLIAM HERSCHEL: The CN. CAROLINE HERSCHEL: This catalogue is the result of the key skills of scientific method used in astronomy. CAROLINE HERSCHEL: This involves making real ...

NGC 4707 was first described way back in 1789 by astronomer William Herschel, and his notes at the time match up well with what we see today. Of course, Herschel could never have imagined that we ...

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae and clusters of stars. He believed that the nebulae ...