William Herschel -born 279 years ago! - 11/13/17 08:26 PM
A professional musician named William Herschel was the first person in history to discover a planet. Later, as a professional astronomer, Herschel studied the stars and deep space objects to try to understand “the construction of the heavens.†He was one of the fathers of modern astronomy.
William Herschel
William Herschel