The discovery of Uranus by William Herschel took an interesting route. William Herschel was not even a professional astronomer. He “was conducting a comprehensive sky survey . . . He had no intention to discover new comets and establish their orbits, and he certainly never expected to find a new planet.” Through much of 1781 many thought of his discovery as a comet. Herschel referred to it as the “new star”, through his observations he saw it as a hybrid, “a link between comets and planets.” It was found that Uranus had been seen by others in 1690 and later too. Uranus was there the whole time but astronomers saw it as a star not a planet. In science it is important to rely on work of others who came before you. What we are able to see from