Who is William hersche?

William Herschel was an 18th-century German-born British astronomer and composer, best known for discovering the planet Uranus in 1781, which expanded the known boundaries of the solar system at the time. He also identified infrared radiation and made significant contributions to the study of double stars and nebulae. Herschel was appointed the Royal Astronomer and built the largest telescope of his time, enhancing observational astronomy. His work laid important foundations for modern astrophysics.