One of the larger planetaries in Cygnus is NGC 7008, which is bright enough for small telescopes on dark nights.  In the northern part of the constellation you'll find NGC 7008, sometimes called the ...

William Herschel made an important observation with his telescope in 1790. Herschel noted that that the nebula looked like a true cloud. This structure was unlike the star clusters he was accustomed ...

In 1790, William Herschel described it as the first deep-sky object that looked cloudy. Unlike star clusters, he couldn't distinguish individual stars within it.

Europe’s ultra-powerful new WEAVE telescope, undergoing its inaugural ‘first-light’ instrument activation, recorded a collision between galaxies in a region of deep space called Stephan’s Quintet, ...

Now, it’s been studied with the first observations from a new instrument called the William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), located on the William Herschel Telescope ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy ripping through galactic debris left by multiple collisions at a dangerous "cosmic crossroads" called Stephan's Quintet.

This rare event was captured by the William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), a state-of-the-art spectrograph located in La Palma, Spain.

A memorial stone to William Herschel, astronomer and musician, was unveiled in the nave in 1954. The grave of his son Sir John is nearby.

On September 9, 1839, English polymath John Herschel took a glass photograph of a 40-foot reflecting telescope. This photograph, which incidentally is a word coined by him, is considered as the ...

Sir William Herschel’s telescope was a reflecting design with a large primary mirror and an eyepiece positioned off-axis to avoid obstructing the light path.

The Hubble Space Telescope's stunning image of the dusty 'train-wreck' galaxy NGC 4753 reveals what may be one of the greatest optical illusions in the nearby universe.