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 * Uranus was first seen by william herschel in 1781 during a survey of the sky useing a telescope 2 herschel also discoved 2 of uranus moons with a larger.
 * Also Uranus is the 7 planet in the solar system
 * Because Uranus is lying on its side as it orbits the sun, for nearly a quarter of its orbit one pole of the planet is in complete darkness.
 * Uranus takes 17.9 hours to turn once on its own axis, faster than the Earth, which takes 24 hours and gives us the change from day to night.
 * Uranus takes 17.9 hours to turn once on its own axis, faster than the Earth, which takes 24 hours and gives us the change from day to night.
 * Uranus is 1782 million miles, or 2869 million kilometres from the Sun. Figure 1 does not show the distances from the Sun to scale, but Figure 2 lets you have an idea of how much further Uranus is from the Sun than the Earth.
 * Uranus is the smallest of the four “giants”, but is still several times larger than the Earth. It has a diameter of 29297 miles, or 47, 150 kilometres, compared to the Earth’s diameter of just under 8000 miles, or 12,760 kilometres.