Uranus

​ U ranus is the seventh planet from the sun Uranus has many faint rings and many moons. It takes 84 years to orbit the sun. Uranus was discovered in 1781. It has 27 known moons and is predicted that there are several smaller moons around it. the largest of these moons is titania. It is named after the greek diety of the heavens. It has been visited by only one satilite voyager II. The orbit of uranus is about 3 million km from the sun.Observations of Uranus taken in Chile in August, 2002, with the 4-meter Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory Blanco telescope have revealed a probable new moon for Uranus. Uranus gives off less heat than it absorbs from the Sun. Uranus is tipped onits side., Orbiting at a distance of 2.88 billion km.

The bluish color of the planet because is of the methane gas in the atmosphere takes red light and reflects blue light.It rotates on its side and so half the time one pole is toward the sun and then the other making each of the four seasons last about 20 years.So far thirteen rings surrounding Uranus have been found. But it's still much closer than Neptune which averages a distance of 4.5 billion km from the Sun.