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.

This is a list of the 28 moons of Uranus. They are listed by how long they take to orbit (go around once) Uranus. They are all named after characters created by William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Notes: * Negative orbital periods indicate a retrograde orbit around Uranus (opposite to the planet's rotation). 5.0 × 10 16? 5.1 × 10 16?

The planet Uranus has 27 known moons. Uranus’s five largest moons—Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Oberon, and Titania—range from about 240 to 800 km (150 to 500 miles) in radius. All were discovered telescopically from Earth, four of them before the 20th century. Ten small inner moons were found by Voyager 2 in 1985–86. An 11th tiny inner moon ...

2025年1月22日 · Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third largest planet in our solar system – about four times wider than Earth. Uranus is very cold and windy. It is surrounded by faint rings, and more than two dozen small moons. It rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit.

2025年1月27日 · Uranus has 28 known moons, including five major moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. The moons are sometimes called the “literary moons” because they are named for Shakespearean characters, along with a couple of the moons being named for characters from the works of Alexander Pope.

2023年5月2日 · On the outskirts of the solar system, Uranus is accompanied by at least 27 moons. We explore these strange tilted moons in more detail.

2025年1月27日 · Uranus has 28 known moons, including five major moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. Oberon and Titania are the largest Uranian moons, and were the first to be discovered – by William Herschel in 1787. William Lassell, who had been the first to see a moon orbiting Neptune, discovered the next two, Ariel and Umbriel.

2023年12月20日 · Nine of Uranus’s 27 moons can be seen surrounding the planet in the new image, shining like pearls. Individual astronomers discovered the ice giant’s five largest moons between 1787 and...

2023年12月20日 · The Zeta ring is the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet. Webb also imaged many of the planet’s 27 known moons, even seeing some small moons within the rings.

2023年4月10日 · For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shared its images of the ice giant Uranus with its invisible glowing rings and 27 moons. As per the space agency's press...