LIMAPAGI – Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun which has the third largest diameter in the solar system. Planet it was the first planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope, in 1781.
Discovered by William Herschel, at first he thought Uranus was just a star or a comet. Two years later the object was universally accepted as a new planet, in part due to the observations of astronomer Johann Elert Bode.
Herschel unsuccessfully named his find Georgium Sidus after King George III. Instead, the scientific community accepted Bode’s suggestion to name it “Uranus”.
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Uranus consists of water, methane, and liquid ammonia above a small rocky center. Uranus’ atmosphere is made of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn, but Uranus also has methane. This methane makes Uranus blue.
