NATS 1745 Study Guide - Circumstellar Disc, Protoplanetary Disk, Gas Giant

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Uranus" name: he was actually trying to detect the parallax of stars, because once the stars parallax could be detected they could calculate a stars distance. He was cataloguing the coordinates of the stars to look for tiny shifts in a stars position. In the process of tracking stars he made a discovery of a new planet: herschel was a well-known classical music composer and classical musicians tend to be good at math and science. While herschel was reading up between connection of math and music, his reading led him to astronomy which he became very interested in: the two ways are 1. This weird star like thing that he came across looked nebulous (not exactly point like more like a little blob as opposed to a tiny dot). He found that the object moved from night to night relative to the stars.