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   2 days ago · Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan -coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, astronomy calls "ice" or volatiles.

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Uranus, seventh planet in distance from the Sun and the least massive of the solar system’s four giant, or Jovian, planets. Uranus has more than two dozen moons, five of which (Umbriel, Miranda, Ariel, Titania, and Oberon) are relatively large, and a system of narrow rings.

   • Uranus was discovered on March 13, 1781, by the English astronomer William Herschel with the aid of a telescope. Uranus is the first planet to be d...
   • The mean distance of Uranus from the Sun is nearly 2.9 billion km (1.8 billion miles), more than 19 times as far as Earth, and it never approaches...
   • On average, Uranus radiates the same amount of energy as an ideal, perfectly absorbing surface at a temperature of 59.1 kelvins (K; −353 °F, −214 °...
   • Uranus has 27 known moons that are accompanied by at least 10 narrow rings. Generally, the rings are located closer to the planet than the moons. S...
   • Unlike most planets, the axis of Uranus lies almost parallel to its orbital plane, which means that the planet spins nearly on its side, its poles...

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4. spaceplace.nasa.gov › all-about-uranus › enAll About Uranus | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

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   Jun 13, 2024 · Uranus is an ice giant (instead of a gas giant). It is mostly made of flowing icy materials above a solid core. Uranus has a thick atmosphere made of methane, hydrogen, and helium. Uranus is the only planet that spins on its side. Uranus spins the opposite direction as Earth and most other planets. Time on Uranus.

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   23 hours ago · Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun, and it is the third-largest planet in the solar system. It has a diameter of 50,724 kilometers and a mass of 8.68 x 10^25 kilograms, making it about 14.5 times more massive than Earth.

   • Absolute Magnitude: 7.19

   • Geometric Albedo: 0.51

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   When was Uranus discovered?

   • Sir William Herschel first observed Uranus on 13 March 1781, leading to its discovery as a planet, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in history and making Uranus the first planet classified as such with the aid of a telescope.

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   How hot is Uranus?

   • The tropopause region is responsible for the vast majority of Uranus's thermal far infrared emissions, thus determining its effective temperature of 59.1 ± 0.3 K (−214.1 ± 0.3 °C; −353.3 ± 0.5 °F).

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   Is Uranus a planet?

   • Uranus is visible to the naked eye, but it is very dim and was not classified as a planet until 1781, when it was first observed by William Herschel. About seven decades after its discovery, consensus was reached that the planet be named after the Greek god Uranus (Ouranos), one of the Greek primordial deities.

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   How long is a year on Uranus?

   • One year on Uranus is the same as 84 years on Earth. That’s a long time to wait for a birthday cake. Uranus has 28 known moons. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. That means Saturn and Neptune are Uranus’ neighboring planets. Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel in Great Britain. Uranus has only been visited by Voyager 2.

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   Is Uranus a neighboring planet?

   • Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. That means Saturn and Neptune are Uranus’ neighboring planets. Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel in Great Britain. Uranus has only been visited by Voyager 2. What does Uranus look like? This picture shows Uranus surrounded by its four major rings and by 10 of its moons.

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   What does Uranus look like?

   • In colours visible to the unaided human eye, Uranus is a bland, nearly featureless sphere (left). In a colour-enhanced view processed to bring out low-contrast details, Uranus shows the banded cloud structure common to the four giant planets (right).

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Uranus - Gas Giant, Rings, Moons: At Uranus’s distance from the Sun, the planet takes slightly more than 84 Earth years, essentially an entire human life span, to complete one orbit.

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Uranus - Rings, Moons, Atmosphere: The rings of Uranus were the first to be found around a planet other than Saturn. The American astronomer James L. Elliot and colleagues discovered the ring system from Earth in 1977, nine years before the Voyager 2 encounter, during a stellar occultation by Uranus—i.e., when the planet passed between a star ...

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   Jun 13, 2024 · All About Uranus. The planet that spins on its side . explore; What Is the Weather Like on Other Planets? Each of the planets in our solar system experiences its own unique weather. explore; Make a Planet Mask! Make a mask and pretend to be your favorite planet in our solar system! do