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William Herschel: The 'greatest observer' who discovered Uranus and helped the Royals stargaze - Berkshire Live
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Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822) was a German-Anglo astronomer. Herschel was the first astronomer to study binary stars and, while searching for comets in 1781, he discovered Uranus, the first new planet to
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