William Herschel's Discovery Of Telescopes

On March 13 1781, William Herschel discovered what was presumed to be a comet, was actually a planet. William was a German-born man who liked the arts especially in music. He eventually started making telescopes which is the reason that led to his discovery, he had the most powerful telescope at that time. The planet Uranus had been seen before but wasn’t assumed to be another planet. Herschel noticed the rings around the object in his telescope and as well the object moved much slower than a comet would. He began to observe and had similar patterns to other planets that were known at the time. I think it is interesting to see how discoveries are made sometimes, William wasn’t necessarily looking for a planet, he was just looking at a group
of stars though his telescope and he notices that one was bigger than the others, so he began to examine it. It shows me that there is much to discover and maybe a lot of what it in the universe might be different than what we think it is.