HERSCHEL

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• HERSCHEL (noun)
  The noun HERSCHEL has 2 senses:

1. English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)

2. English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)

  Familiarity information: HERSCHEL used as a noun is rare.

• HERSCHEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Herschel; John Herschel; Sir John Frederick William Herschel; Sir John Herschel

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Herschel; Sir Frederick William Herschel; Sir William Herschel; William Herschel

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

 Context examples 

A temporary atmosphere would be consistent with the water vapor the Herschel Space Observatory detected at Ceres in 2012-2013.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

At these temperatures, the clumps emit the bulk of their radiation in the low-energy, submillimeter and infrared light that Herschel was specifically designed to detect.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)

The red areas near the edge represent cold dust that was detected by the Herschel Space Telescope, while the white star field was detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

In the case of Sharpless 2-54, British astronomer William Herschel initially noticed its beaming star cluster in 1784.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

In addition to determining the galaxy's size from the Hubble images, the team dug into archival far-infrared images from Spitzer and Herschel.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

Earlier observations of this area with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory revealed a startling concentration of young stellar objects – protostars that have just begun to heat their stellar nurseries, causing them to glow brightly in infrared light.

(Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

Using NASA's NuSTAR space telescope and a fast camera called ULTRACAM on the William Herschel Observatory in La Palma, Spain, scientists have been able to measure the distance that particles in jets travel before they "turn on" and become bright sources of light. This distance is called the "acceleration zone."

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

For their research, the scientists used NASA's repurposed planet-hunting Kepler space telescope — its mission now known as K2 — along with the archival data from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory, a mission of the European Space Agency with NASA participation.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538.

(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)

The electrons that GRaND detected could have been produced by the solar wind hitting the water molecules that Herschel observed, but scientists are also looking into alternative explanations.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)