URANUS it is the seventh planet in the range of our solar system that orbits the sun. Uranus is located between Saturn and Neptune at an average distance of just over 2.9 billion kilometers or about 1.8 billion miles.
Uranus is the third largest planet in the Solar System, with a width of 50,000 kilometers (31,500 miles). These giants are too far from Earth to see with the naked eye. It wasn’t until advances in telescopes in the late 18th century that a German-born English astronomer named William Herschel spotted it while looking for comets.
The planet that was previously called Georgium Sidus, the name of King George III, had failed to become popular before finally being changed to Uranus. Others want to name it after Herschel and after the god of the seas, Neptune.
Eventually, however, the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode suggested that the Roman god Caelus, as father of Saturn and grandfather of Jupiter, might be a better fit. However, Greek mythology experts have named the planet after the sky god’s nickname ‘OO-ran-oss’, due to the blue color that dominates the planet.
The soft light blue hues of Uranus are very close to the deeper oceanic blue hues of its neighboring planet, Neptune. The researchers found subtle differences in the processes that both have.
Both planets have rocky cores surrounded by an icy mantle of thick water, ammonia, and methane that can precipitate chunks of dense carbon as “diamond rain.”
The thick atmosphere is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium with methane gas, all layered in such a way that they produce turbulent cloud-forming weather and winds that can blow at up to 900 kilometers (560 miles) per hour.
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