Uranus Observations

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The topic that I choose to do my research on was Astronomy and the discovery of Uranus by William Hershel in 1781. This is a topic that fascinates me because I love learning about the planets and the rest of the universe. It 's a lot of fun learning about, so I decided to do some deep research on a specific planet and it 's discovery.

I learned that Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. He discovered it by inventing a powerful telescope that he used to search for comets, stars, and other things out there in our universe. While doing so, he ended up finding a comet-like object that, which he later discovered that it was a planet. This planet became to be known as Uranus. Discovering this wasn 't an easy task, because it required