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Sunday, April 11, 2010

William Herschel's Museum

Herschel was an 18th/19th century musician with a strong interest in astronomy. When not playing is bassoon he discovered the planet Uranus, was the first to describe infrared radiation, and had a friend in the late 18th century who developed the theory that entities in space were so dense that their gravitational pull could suck up all the light around the entity. We later labeled these entities black holes.
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