Monday, April 5, 2010

This is a portrait of Caroline Lucretia Herschel.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7154/images/448649a-i1.0.jpg

William Herschel was Caroline's brother, who was also involved in astronomy.
http://to55er.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/william_herschel.jpg

Caroline was the first woman to discover a comet.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/image06/060227comet.jpg

Hannover, Germany was where Caroline was born in 1750.
http://faculty.smu.edu/ekersting/images/map.germany.hannover.jpg

Caroline used telescopes to look for comets.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/diary/paris_2007/paris_observatory_small_telescope.jpg




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