...Discovery of Uranus Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel on March 13, 1781. His phenomenal detection was unintentional, just like most of today’s most famous discoveries. Herschel was looking for stars in his telescope and came across a blurry object that he assumed to be a comet. After a few nights of observation, it became apparent to Herschel that although the object was moving along with the background stars, its acceleration was way too slow to be classified as a comet. After many calculations, and years of study, he then concluded that this object was in fact a planet. This planet was further away from the sun than any other known planets, and was the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. (Uranus is the 7th planet...
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...The story of our Solar System and it's discovery, could be written in two parts. The first, would be made up of the discovery of the first planets we knew about, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Many different peoples around the world knew of these planets and some even had cultures based around them. This next part of our road to discovery started with a man named William Herschel. Born in Germany, to a family of a musical background, he often felt drawn to other arts, and gained many interests, one of which was astronomy. He read books, did some research, and then began using a small telescope to better see the skies. William was infatuated with the skies, the telescopes of his time were not enough, leaving him to make his own. In time he was making some of the best telescopes in the world, his interest had led to the greatest telescopes of his day, that's powerful! Herschel was different from other scientists in many respects, he looked at the skies not to map them, but to explore them from his vantage point. He sought signs of life beyond Earth, and so his focus was the Sun, moon, and planets, he...
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...Discovering Uranus William Herschel was an amateur astronomer. In March 1781, Herschel discovered what he thought was a comet. Because of the limits of his telescope, he had a difficult time seeing what his discovery actually was. He did not believe this discovery was due to chance. “He saw it as an inevitable consequence of a series of thorough surveys of the heavens which marked a new kind of astronomical practice.” 1 Herschel began surveying the stars in 1779 using a 7’ reflecting telescope. Being the scientist that he was, he immediately wrote his discovery in his journal. He realized this could not be a star because it had moved. In order to define his discovery, he asked his friend, Dr. William Watson, to show him the “comet.”...
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...Introduction HOW SHOULD YOU INTERPRET YOUR SCORES? In the Answer key at the end of the each set of Listening and Reading answers you will find a chart which will help you assess if, on the basis of your practice test results, you are ready to take the IELTS exam. In interpreting your score, there are a number of points you should bear in mind. Your performance in the real IELTS test will be reported in two ways: there will be a Band Score from 1 to 9 for each of the modules and an Overall Band Score from 1 to 9, which is the average of your scores in the four modules. However, institutions considering your application are advised to look at both the Overall Band and the Bands for each module. They do this in order to see if you have the language skills needed for a particular course of study. For example, if your course has a lot of reading and writing, but no lectures, listening comprehension might be less important and a score of 5 in Listening might be acceptable if the Overall Band Score was 7. However, for a course where there are lots of lectures and spoken instructions, a score of 5 in Listening might be unacceptable even though the Overall Band Score was 7. Once you have marked your papers you should have some idea of whether your Listening and Reading skills are good enough for you to try the real IELTS test. If you did well enough in one module but not in others, you will have to decide for yourself whether you are ready to take the proper test yet...
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