Sir William Herschel, astronomer, 1790s. Artist: John Russell

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Sir William Herschel, astronomer, 1790s. Artist: John Russell

Sir William Herschel, astronomer, 1790s. Holding a diagram of planets and their planetry rings. Herschel constructed his own telescope after taking up astronomy as a hobby. As well as discovering the planet Uranus in 1781 and two of its satellites, he performed a major study of Saturn. He discovered two satellites, the rotation of the planetary rings and the period of the planets rotation. He also catalogued and investigated the motions of binary stars, the results of which are still in use

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