03. Who discovered it and when? (A K2S Question)

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A musician named Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus on March 13, 1781. Although Uranus had been observed many times previously, even as early as 1690, astronomers assumed the planet was a star. Herschel first thought it was a comet. The planet's faint ring system wasn't discovered for another 200 years.

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Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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