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People

Herschel (name) Herschel, Herschell, Herschelle or Hershel is a given name and a surname of Germans, German and Jewish origins. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Herschel W. Arant (1887–1941), American legal academic * Herschel Austin (1911– ...

, various people

Places

Herschel, Eastern Cape Herschel is a settlement in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The village is situated north of Lady Grey, due east of Aliwal North. Founded in 1879, it was named after the astronomer Sir John Hersch ...

, South Africa *

Herschel, Saskatchewan Herschel is a special service area in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is the seat of the Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318 and held village status prior to December 31, 2006. The population was 30 people in 2016. The communi ...

Herschel, Yukon This is a list of communities in Yukon. Municipalities Unincorporated communities These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass. Hamlets Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...

Herschel Bay Herschel Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Nares Strait, west of Smith Sound. Ellesmere Island is to the east, while Pim Island Pim Island (previously Bedford Pim Island) is located off the ea ...

, Canada *

Herschel Heights The Herschel Heights () are a complex of nunataks of which Mimas Peak on the east is the highest, located southwest of the Enceladus Nunataks and near the head of Saturn Glacier in southeastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The eastern part of ...

, Alexander Island, Antarctica * Herschel Island, Canada * Mount Herschel, Antarctica *

Cape Sterneck Cape Sterneck () is a bold, black cliff on a projecting point forming the west extremity of Chavdar Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay and the west side of the ...

, Antarctica

Astronomy

Herschel (crater) There are several impact craters named Herschel in the Solar System, although the best known is the huge crater on Saturn's moon Mimas. Most are named after the eighteenth-century astronomer William Herschel. *Herschel (lunar crater), on the Moon * ...

, various craters in the solar system *

2000 Herschel 2000 Herschel, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and a tumbling slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered 29 July 1960, by German astronomer Joachim Schubart at So ...

, an asteroid * 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, a comet *

Herschel Catalogue (disambiguation) Herschel Catalogue may refer to: * Herschel Space Observatory catalogue of observations * Catalogues published by William Herschel and Caroline Herschel ** '' Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars'' catalogued by William and Caroline Hersch ...

, various astronomical catalogues of nebulae *

Herschel Medal The Herschel Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for "investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics". It is awarded for a single piece of work so that younger scientists can be candidates for the award. It ...

, awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society *

Herschel Museum of Astronomy The Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, Bath, England, is a museum that was inaugurated in 1981. It is located in a town house that was formerly the home of William Herschel and his sister Caroline. Location The museum is si ...

, in Bath, United Kingdom *

Herschel Space Observatory The Herschel Space Observatory was a space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). It was active from 2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telesc ...

, operated by the European Space Agency *

Herschel wedge A Herschel wedge or Herschel prism is an optical prism used in solar observation to refract most of the light out of the optical path, allowing safe visual observation. It was first proposed and used by astronomer John Herschel in the 1830s. Over ...

, an optical prism used in solar observation * Herschel's Garnet Star, a red supergiant star *

William Herschel Telescope The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The telescope, which is named after William Herschel, ...

, in the Canary Islands *

Telescopium Herschelii Telescopium Herschelii (Latin for ''Herschel's telescope''), also formerly known as Tubus Hershelli Major, is a former constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. Maximilian Hell established it in 1789 to honour Sir William Herschel's d ...

, a constellation *

Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus (mythology), Uranus (Caelus), who, according to Greek mythology, was the great-grandfather of Ares (Mars (mythology), Mars), grandfather ...

, for a time known as Herschel

Other uses

* Allan Herschell Company, which specialized in amusement park rides * Herschel–Bulkley fluid, a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid *

Herschel baronets The Herschel Baronetcy, of Slough in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 July 1838 for John Herschel, son of the famous astronomer Sir William Herschel, and a well-known astronomer ...

, of the United Kingdom * Herschel Girls' School, a private day and boarding school in Cape Town *

Herschel Grammar School Herschel Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school with academy status, located in Slough, Berkshire, England. The headteacher is Mrs Joanne Rockall. The school has around 900 pupils, 250 of whom are in the sixth form. History The sc ...

, in Slough, Berkshire, England * Herschel graph, a bipartite undirected graph *

Herschel Greer Stadium Herschel Greer Stadium was a Minor League Baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee, on the grounds of Fort Negley, an American Civil War fortification, approximately south of the city's downtown district. The facility closed at the end of the 20 ...

, in Nashville, Tennessee *

Herschel Walker trade The Herschel Walker trade was the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League (NFL). This deal on October 12, 1989, centered on sending running back Herschel Walker from the Dallas Cowboys to the Minnesota Vikings. Including ...

, the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League *

Herschel Supply Co. Herschel Supply Co. is a Canadian company selling hipster retro backpacks and accessories. The company was founded by Lyndon and Jamie Cormack in 2009 and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Herschel manufactures its products ...

, Canadian backpack manufacturer * USNS ''Hershel "Woody" Williams'' (T-ESB-4), sister ship of USNS ''Lewis B. Puller'' (T-ESB-3), a mobile landing platform * Herschel, a specific

heptomino A heptomino (or 7-omino) is a polyomino of order 7, that is, a polygon in the plane made of 7 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. The name of this type of figure is formed with the prefix hept(a)-. When rotations and reflections are not ...

and

methuselah (cellular automaton) In cellular automata, a methuselah is a small "seed" pattern of initial live cells that take a large number of generations in order to stabilize. More specifically, Martin Gardner defines them as patterns of fewer than ten live cells which take l ...

Conway’s Game of Life The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further ...

* ''Herschel'' (ship, 1926), see

Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed The Mackenzie River in Canada's Northwest Territories is a historic waterway, used for centuries by Indigenous peoples, specifically the Dene, as a travel and hunting corridor. Also known as the Deh Cho, it is part of a larger watershed that inc ...

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