All This Is That: 226 years ago today, Uranus was discovered

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

226 years ago today, Uranus was discovered

Today in 1781, William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. Herschel, a German-born astronomer, was not the first person to observe the seventh planet from the sun, but he was the first to correctly identify it as a planet. Prior to Herschel, Uranus was believed to be a star.

That's 226 years of really lame jokes.
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