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Uranus is surrounded by rings and moons in the new Webb image. The central bright feature on the planet is Uranus' seasonal north polar cap. - NASA/ESA/CSA/ STScI
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought.
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.
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.
Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. [9] Like the other large moons of Uranus, Miranda orbits close to its planet's ...
Uranus's Frankensteinian moon Miranda looks like it’s been torn apart and stitched back together a thousand times. Miranda, the innermost of the planet's five major moons, has a bizarre surface.
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"
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 ...