right now hello on march 13, 1781 , british astronomer william herschel discovered the seventh planet the solar system. uranus on the night of the discovery, he took what he saw for a foggy star or comet and spoke about his discovery in the royal society of london. after a few months of observations at the greenwich observatory, herschel realized that it was the new planet uranus that was four times the size of the earth and 14.5 times heavier in its bowels there is a lot of ice. the atmosphere is based on hydrogen and helium. period of circulation. uranus around the sun 84 earth years after herschel was accepted into the royal society and awarded the most prestigious collie medal and then an award in the scientific world on march 13, 1881 as a result of an assassination attempt. the bit of emperor alexander ii was far away, not the first attempt to kill the tsar, but at that time the terrorists achieved their goal , the murder was carried out by several members of the narodnaya volya organization, in st. petersburg on the embankment of the catherine canal. now it is called the griboy