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NASA's cheeky Tweet likely stirred a few laughs, but you should know in professional circles, most astronomers pronounce "Uranus" differently than, say, a group of giggling middle-schoolers.
Uranus is the butt of a lot of jokes, but scientists pronounce the name of our seventh planet differently than, say, most giggling middle-schoolers.
The pronunciation of the name Uranus preferred among astronomers is / ˈ jʊər ə n ə s / YOOR-ə-nəs, [1] with the long "u" of English and stress on the first syllable as in Latin Uranus, in contrast to / j ʊ ˈ r eɪ n ə s / yoo-RAY-nəs, with stress on the second syllable and a long a, though both are considered acceptable. [g]
Note on pronunciation. The suffix -ian is always unstressed: that is, / i ə n /. The related ending -ean, from an e in the root plus a suffix -an, has traditionally been stressed (that is, / ˈ iː ə n /) if the e is long ē in Latin (or is from η ē in Greek); but if the e is short in Latin, the suffix is pronounced the same as -ian.
Either you start pronouncing 'anus' and 'uranium' differently - to coincide with the pronunciation of 'Uranus' - or you concede that the correct pronunciation of Uranus is Ur-Ain-Us. 5. The article needs to change because the ONE AND ONLY correct pronunciation of the Latin word Uranus in English is Ur-Ain-Us, and that is NOT colloquial.
Illustrations depict how Uranus' magnetosphere, or protective bubble, was behaving before Voyager 2's arrival (left) and during the spacecraft's flyby (right).
Many English-speaking astronomers follow the classical convention, but others follow Christy's, [note 6] [34] [35] [36] and that is the prescribed pronunciation at NASA and of the New Horizons team. [ 3 ] [ note 7 ]
In the 1990s, it was determined that Uranus and Neptune were a distinct class of giant planet, separate from the other giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, which are gas giants predominantly composed of hydrogen and helium. [1] Neptune and Uranus are now referred to as ice giants. Lacking well-defined solid surfaces, they are primarily composed ...