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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, of the United Kingdom * Herschel Girls' School, a private day and boarding school in Cape Town * Herschel Grammar School, in Slough, Berkshire, England * Herschel graph, a bipartite undirected graph * Herschel Greer Stadium, in Nashville, Tennessee * Herschel Walker trade, the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League * Herschel Supply Co., 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

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

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