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Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 28 confirmed moons. The 27 with names are named after characters that appear in, or are mentioned in, William Shakespeare's plays and Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock. [1] Uranus's moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and ten irregular moons.
Further out are the larger five major moons of the planet: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. Orbiting at a much greater distance from Uranus are the ten known irregular moons. The planet's magnetosphere is highly asymmetric and has many charged particles, which may be the cause of the darkening of its rings and moons.
Cordelia is the innermost known moon of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on January 20, 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 7 . [ 1 ] It was not detected again until the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1997.
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought. New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life Skip to main content
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A new study from NASA recently announced that four of Uranus’s five biggest moons may have liquid water oceans beneath their surface. The 4 Major Moons of Uranus May Have Underground Oceans ...
Surface features of Uranus' moons (2 C, 11 P) T. Titania (moon) (1 C, 3 P) U. Umbriel (4 P) Pages in category "Moons of Uranus"
Oberon / ˈ oʊ b ər ɒ n /, also designated Uranus IV, is the outermost and second-largest major moon of the planet Uranus. It is the second-most massive of the Uranian moons , and the tenth-largest moon in the Solar System .