Sir William Herschel, 1738 - 1822

Sir William Herschel discovered, in addition to the planet Uranus, many new nebulae, clusters of stars and binary stars. He was the first person to correctly describe the form of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. In 1800, the German-born British astronomer and musician described that the differently coloured filters through which he observed the Sun allowed different levels of heat to pass. He performed a simple experiment to study the