Today in History: 11 January 1787: German-Bristish astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. He constructed his first large telescope in 1774 and spent the following nine years systematically surveying the skies. He used prisms and temperature sensors to measure the wavelength distribution of stellar …
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