She stood four foot three, scarred by childhood typhus and blind in one eye, and her own mother deliberately blocked her education to guarantee a life of household servitude. That woman became the first female in England to hold an official government position, the first woman paid for scientific work, and the namesake of a satellite, a lunar crater, and an asteroid. Caroline Herschel's century-spanning life is a master class in resilience and the quiet power of meticulous data.

This episode follows her rescue from Hanover by her brother William, the opera career she abandoned out of loyalty when his obsession turned to telescope mirrors, and the 16-hour polishing sessions where she fed him by hand. It covers her own comet discoveries, the catalog work that became the NGC system astronomers still use today, and the Royal Astronomical Societ ...