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Was born in Hanover, Germany, in the Holy Roman Empire
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William Herschel was dispatched back to england.
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He discovers one of saturn's moons
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It indirectly earned him a Copley medal, a high-paying job and a position in the Fellowship to the Royal Society.
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the day of his election to the Royal Society, his friend, William Watson, presented a copy of messiers. This started his intrest in nebulas and comets
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He quit his musical career in order to focus on being an astronomer.
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he started to investigate Messier's objects with his superior telescopes; his first observation was that of globular cluster M5 in Serpens.
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He discovers that triangular prisms create rainbows when white light goes through them.
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He died in England
