In this special Objectivity episode, Professor Michael Merrifield joins the team to look at the legacy of the Herschel family, and their significant contributions to astronomy.

From an original hand-drawn map of the Milky Way, to Jon Herschel's planetary nebula drawings, the team look at how the astronomers operated at the limits of what the human eye could see plus of the size http://ow.ly/bom7307icQ7