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.
CAROLINE HERSCHEL: Are they recording? William, press record will you? WILLIAM HERSCHEL: We are rolling, Caz, chill out. CAROLINE HERSCHEL: Oh hello SciTubers! I am Caroline Herschel and this ...
Everybody Loves a Cluster with a Nebula This is NGC 2264, the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. The bright stars ...
New visitor to our solar system 'sends a shiver down the spine' of scientist studying it ...
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Uranus Almost Had An Arguably Even Funnier NameStill, that’s what we almost had. Yes, really. In March 1781, in Bath, England, the astronomer William Herschel became the first person to recognize what we now call Uranus as a planet.
The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...
Straight south in the early evening is the familiar constellation Orion. Above Orion, to the northeast, the constellation ...
The Cone Nebula is a massive pillar of gas and dust located in the Monoceros constellation, within a region where stars are actively forming. The image, taken by the European Space Observatory's ...
Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...
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