Caroline Herschel Research Paper

Caroline Lucretia Herschel was born on March 16, 1750 in Hanover, Germany. She was one of 10 children of Anna Ilse Moritzen and Issak Herschel. Caroline didn’t get a great education, but she learned how to read and write. However, she didn’t receive a formal degree. When Caroline was ten years old, she was diagnosed with the Typhus disease. Caroline’s family was very big in music, and one of her older brothers, William, later moved to England to pursue a music career. When Caroline was 22, she moved to England to be with her brother and to have him train her to become a singer. She was trained to sing soprano and was allowed to live with him, but she became his housekeeper. William has had a passion for astronomy, and when he was in his mid-30s, he devoted more time in it. Caroline wanted to follow her brother’s passion in astronomy. She helped him produce reflecting telescopes, and it was her job to grind and polish the mirrors. She wanted to pursue this passion so much that she mastered algebra and formulas for conversion and calculation to observe stars and measure astronomical distances. In 1781, William discovered Uranus, just by simply surveying some stars. His big discovery knighted him and he was
She later discovered 14 new nebulae, including one known as NGC 205, which is the companion to the Andromeda Galaxy. A few years later on August 1, 1786, Caroline found a strange objects traveling slowly through the sky. After observing it another night, she decided to alert other astronomers to announce the information of its path for them to study it. The object turns out to be a comet, which makes Caroline Herschel the first woman to discover a comet! Throughout the years between 1786 and 1797, she discovered a total of 8 comets, all named after her. In addition, Caroline cross-indexed the existing star catalog created by John Flamsteed, submitting more than 550 new