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A German Organist in Bath Discovered a Planet From His Back Garden

On 13 March 1781, a German-born church organist named William Herschel was looking at stars in his back garden in Bath through a home-made seven-foot telescope when he noticed one of them had a disc. Stars don't have discs. He
had accidentally discovered Uranus. In 1787 his sister Caroline got her own salary from George III — the first British woman ever paid for science. In 1785 William read a paper at the Royal Society arguing the Milky Way was a
disc-shaped system of stars, by counting stars across 683 sample fields of the sky. He was approximately right, two hundred years early. This month, JWST just published the clearest map of the cosmic web ever made.

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