Uranus

Welcome to my Uranus page. Uranus was the first planet discovered since ancient times. British astronomer William Herschel discovered it in 1781. Johann E. Bode, a German astronomer, named it Uranus after a sky god in Greek mythologys. Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and is 1,784,860,000 miles from the sun. Uranus's diameter is 4 times the size of Earth. The Temperature of Uranus can be as low as 355 degrees below zero and can get up to 4000 degrees at the hottest! Only one mission went to Uranus because, he magnetic field has trapped high-energy, electrically charged particles -- mostly electrons and protons -- in radiation belts around the planet. As these particles travel back and forth between the magnetic poles, they send out radio waves. Voyager 2 detected the waves, but they are so weak that they cannot be detected on Earth. Visit Neptune