William Herschel was a composer in the middle Classical period. He mostly composed symphonies, and concertos, but also much other music. Herschel is more well known not for his musical life but his work in Astronomy. He was an avid astronomer and telescope maker. He would spend hours at night looking at the night skies and cataloguing what is known as Messier objects. These are objects that another astronomer from France noted, as star clusters, nebulae, planets, comets, and other things. Herschel saw and noted down almost 5,000 of these Messier objects. As the story goes one night he was looking at the night sky and he saw a fuzzy object. He told other astronomers about this and they looked at this object and the consensus was that it was a new planet. At the time is was called planet Herschel, but later on it officially became our 7th planet Uranus. Herschel discovered other things. He discovered Infrared radiation, two moons of Uranus, the polar caps of Mars and sunspots.
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