WILLIAM HERSCHEL

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• WILLIAM HERSCHEL (noun)
  The noun WILLIAM HERSCHEL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WILLIAM HERSCHEL used as a noun is very rare.

• WILLIAM HERSCHEL (noun)

Sense 1

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 

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)

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)