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Which two major moons of Uranus did William Herschel discover?
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Sir William Herschel, detail of an oil painting by L. Abbott, 1785; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The two major moons of Uranus discovered by the astronomer William Herschel in 1787 are Titania and Oberon.12