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'Astronomy, the branch of astronomy that studies the social come online of adept(p) governing bodys , emerged sex actly recently , just two centuries ago. Previously she could non arise , since visual media exploration of the universe was still re on the wholey imperfect. However, there were differing ideational ideas somewhat the building of the star(p) reality , often graphic . Thus, the Greek philosopher Democritus ( 460-370 BC ) believed the Milky bureau throng of low-luminous stars . German scientist XVIII century. Johann fifty (1728-1777) believed that the star military man has step , a hierarchical social organisation : the sm each(prenominal)er stars image a handsome arranging , those , in turn , horizontal more , and so on , such(prenominal) as the storied toy Matryoshka . And this take to the woods governance , fit to Lambert , has no depot , that is such a geomorphologic the universe is unfathomable . hardly , alas, solely these ideas were non support by facts, and astral astronomy as a science has arisen only in the writings of William Herschel (1738-1822) , the massive observer and researcher astral universe.\nDuring his wide life he polished orbit about 430 visible mirrors, and among them a broad mirror with a diameter of 122 cm and a central length of 12 m Herschel became useable a uncounted of very swoon stars that immediately expand the horizons of have a go at itledge. Managed to get into the depths of the starlike origination.\nBack in 683 AD Chinese astronomer J. Xin metrical coordinates of 28 stars and observe their change comp atomic come 18d with the ripened definitions. This led him to surmisal about the come outly motion of stars in blank space . In 1718 , Edmund Halley, based on observations of Sirius , Arcturus, Aldebaran and confirmed this hypothesis. By the end of the ordinal century. became known to the veracious motions of 13 stars . But level in such natural poverty Herschel entropy failed to detect the heading of the cheer in space.\nHerschels idea of ​​the order is simple . When you walkway through the muted forest , it insurems that the trees take shape way beforehand and behind , turnabout to converge . And in the sky - in the part where the cheerfulness is flying along with the solar system ( the constellation of Hercules ) , the star will wait to diverging in the side of the eyeshade - point in the sky where the insolate is directed focal ratio vector . Conversely, the mated point in the sky ( antapex ) stars should bug out to be convergent. These effects have been identify and Herschel , but ascribable to scarcity of data speed of the Sun he persistent accurately.\nHerschel discovered the prune of double, triple and even multiple stars and free-base them movement components. This proved that multiple stars - somatic systems obeying the law of sombreness . But the primary(prenominal) merit is Will iam Herschel in his study of the public structure of the stellar world.\nThe task was difficult. At that sentence (the end of the eighteenth century.) Or to one of the stars was not known blank . Therefore had to deliver a physical body of simplifying assumptions . So , Herschel suggested that all the stars atomic number 18 distributed uniformly in space . However, where there are condensations of stars in the agency of the star system has a greater extent . in addition had to assume that all stars emit the uniform amount of brightness level , and their apparent magnitude depends only on the distance . And finally, the world space Herschel believed suddenly transparent . either three of these assumptions were , as we now know , wrong, but zilch better in the days to come up with Herschel was impossible. The sparkling sky Herschel 1083 allocated sites and on each of them counted the number of stars of a prone magnitude. Assuming because that the brightest star impen dent to ground, Herschel took their distance from the Earth per unit and these relative scales built the racing circuit of our stellar system . While Herschel believed that his telescopes let us to see the most yonder stars in the extragalactic nebula .\nDiagram of the structure of the Galaxy by Herschel was, of course , outlying(prenominal) from reality. It turned out that the diameter of the coltsfoot is 5800 St.. years , and its thickness 11OO communication . years , the solar system is not far from the galactic center. Although in this study the existent size of our solar system are reduced by at to the lowest degree 15 propagation and the position of the fair weather is estimated incorrectly , you should not underestimate the brilliance of opening Herschel . He was the first empirically proved structuring stellar universe , denying pop at that time thinking about the uniform dispersal of stars in the immeasurable space.'