On the 13th of March, 1781 William Herschel saw through his telescope what he thought to be a comet. He asked other astronomers about it and told them what he found. Without their help he may have never made any conclusion of that comet. He was not officially an astronomer. Herschel looked at stars as a hobby. He recorded double stars and fuzzy objects in the distance. He also looked for other life that exists out in space. That so called “comet” turned out to be a planet, “the first planet discovered since the beginning of recorded history!” (Ruskin)

Herschel’s discovery was led by his hobby. He originally was a musician, but after he discovered the planet he was then paid to be an astronomer, and he gave up his musical career.