🔬 Uranus is discovered (1781)
Where: Bath, UK
📅 On This Day: March 13
March 13, 1781: Uranus is discovered. On 13 March 1781, musician and astronomer William Herschel first saw Uranus through a homemade telescope in the garden of his house in Bath, England. At first he thought it was a comet, but it was the first planet ever found with a telescope. His house is now the Herschel Museum of Astronomy.
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- 1988 🏛️ The Seikan Tunnel opened in Japan, running 54 kilometres and deep under the sea to link the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido by train.
🧠 Question of the day
What did Herschel first think Uranus was?
- A comet
- An airplane
- The Moon
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Answer: A comet
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What happened on March 13?
March 13, 1781: Uranus is discovered. It happened in Bath, UK.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus