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

A 7 foot telecope similar to this one was used by William Herschel to sweep ... see a perfect replica of the telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy 19 New King Street.

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 ...

New visitor to our solar system 'sends a shiver down the spine' of scientist studying it ...

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 ...

something that facilitated its discovery by the astronomer William Herschel in 1801. Astronomers have run into several cosmological quandaries when it comes to dwarf galaxies like NGC 5949.

Uranus was discovered in the month of March by Astronomer William Herschel in 1781. Here is a quiz on the first planet to be discovered through a telescope.

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 ...

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 were ...