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Herschel, Sir William

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Herschel, Sir William (1738–1822) English astronomer, b. Germany. He discovered Uranus (1781) and later two satellites of Uranus (1787) and two of Saturn (1789). Herschel observed many double stars and more than 2000 nebulae and clusters, and published catalogues of them. Herschel realized that the Milky Way is the plane of a disc-shaped universe, whose form he calculated by counting the numbers of stars visible in different directions. In 1800, he discovered and investigated infrared radiation. See also nebula

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