Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may not recognize her name.

German-born female astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) becomes a Cinderella-like heroine in Turner’s quotation-filled text, which charts the subject’s transformation to acclaimed career scientist ...

IT is somewhat rare to find the bonds of family affection so strong as they were in the Herschel family. Between William and his sister Caroline, who wrote of him as “the best and dearest of brothers” ...

Astronomer Caroline Herschel’s work discovering and cataloging astronomical objects in the 18th century is still used in the field today, but she didn’t always get her due credit. Mary Anning, Thomas ...

These New Year’s Day fireworks, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope, are a little late ‚ but in their defense, they had to travel 50,000 light years to get here. Globular cluster NGC 6355 contains ...

The Herschel Museum in Bath, England, has a new display of a handwritten draft of Caroline Herschel’s memoirs. Internet Archive Book Images via Wikimedia Commons Caroline Herschel, the first English ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may not ...

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