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Culture Seven.

Exercises Four and Five.

Reporter: Today, I am with Simon Humphreys, Professor of astronomy at a university in London. We are talking about Caroline Herschel, the astronomer. Simon, where was Caroline Herschel born?

Simon: She was actually born in Germany, but she spent most of her life in Britain. She was the sister of the astronomer William Herschel. He was born in seventeen thirty-eight and was twelve years older than his sister.

Reporter: He worked in Britain too?

Simon: Yes, he came to Britain when he was nineteen and his sister joined him fifteen years later in seventeen fifty-two.

Reporter: And she worked with him, did she?

Simon: Yes. At first she did the cooking and cleaning for him, but she soon became his assistant. She wrote down the results of his observations.

Reporter: He's more famous than she is, isn't he?

Simon: Yes. That's because he discovered the planet Uranus in seventeen eighty-two. It was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope and William built the telescope himself. But Caroline helped him. He couldn't do it without her.

Reporter: And she discovered a planet too, didn't she?

Simon: Not a planet, but she discovered eight comets and also fourteen nebulae.

Reporter: Can you explain to the listeners what a nebula is?

Simon: Yes. A nebula is an enormous cloud of dust between stars. They are sometimes hundreds of light years across and sometimes stars form inside them.

Reporter: What else did Caroline do?

Simon: She was very good at maths and successfully calculated distances to planets and stars.

Reporter: That is impressive.

Simon: Yes. She received a number of important awards including the gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in eighteen twenty-eight.

Reporter: She was quite old by then.

Simon: Yes. She was seventy-seven. But scientists from all over Europe were still coming to see her to ask for advice. And she lived another twenty years and finally died at the age of ninety-seven.

Reporter: What a fascinating woman!

Simon: Yes, especially as in those days it was extremely difficult for women to have a career of their own.

Reporter: Thank you, Simon.