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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Family of British astronomers, including Sir William Herschel (1738–1822), who discovered Uranus (1781) and cataloged more than 800 double stars and 2,400 previously unknown nebulae and other deep-sky objects. His sister Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) assisted in his work and discovered numerous comets. His son Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871) cataloged nearly 2,000 more deep-sky objects and conducted notable research on light, photography, and astrophysics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name by which the planet now called Uranus was formerly known, from its discoverer, Sir William Herschel. See
Uranus , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) See
Uranus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy, obsolete The planet
Uranus . In use until the mid-19th century as an alternative toGeorgium Sidus after King George III.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
- noun English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
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I went back and re-read, and there are hints even at the star that Herschel is in more emotional pain that his wife is in physical pain.
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About four hundred miles away from Herschel is Dawson, capital of the Yukon.
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British scientists have key roles in the telescopes, one called Herschel and other Planck, which will probe the birth and evolution of the universe.
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Only his old football pals still called Herschel by that nickname.
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down Sherrilyn Kenyon 2005
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Slakker told me to call Herschel to take Jacky's place at work.
kaboom Diary Entry kaboom 2004
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For a while it was insisted by astronomers and the world at large that the new globe, then supposed to bound the solar system on its outer circumference, should be called Herschel, in honor of its discoverer.
Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Various 1870
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We did not make it, for we know nothing of mathematics whatever; therefore, it was made by the only person to whom it can rationally be ascribed, namely Herschel the astronomer, its only avowed and undeniable author. '
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London, May 2: A British space mission, which would include two deep space telescopes, dubbed Herschel and Planck, will probe the ancient history of the cosmos going right back to the dawn of time at the Big Bang - and possibly before.
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According to Chris Wilson, a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at McMaster University, the Herschel is the biggest telescope ever launched, enabling the observation of things in the universe that weren't possible before, including, for the first time, water vapor emissions in another galaxy.
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According to Chris Wilson, a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at McMaster University, the Herschel is the biggest telescope ever launched, enabling the observation of things in the universe that weren't possible before, including, for the first time, water vapor emissions in another galaxy.
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