William Herschel – SofList https://www.soflist.com Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:44:59 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 The Night One Man Doubled the Solar System 🪐🌌 https://www.soflist.com/2026/03/14/the-night-one-man-doubled-the-solar-system-%f0%9f%aa%90%f0%9f%8c%8c/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-night-one-man-doubled-the-solar-system-%25f0%259f%25aa%2590%25f0%259f%258c%258c https://www.soflist.com/2026/03/14/the-night-one-man-doubled-the-solar-system-%f0%9f%aa%90%f0%9f%8c%8c/#respond Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:44:59 +0000 https://www.soflist.com/2026/03/14/the-night-one-man-doubled-the-solar-system-%f0%9f%aa%90%f0%9f%8c%8c/

For thousands of years, humans believed the solar system ended at Saturn.

​On a cold night in 1781, William Herschel noticed a star that was “moving.” This tiny glitch in the map of the stars revealed Uranus—the first planet discovered with a telescope. In one night, our neighborhood in space got twice as large.

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