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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun
and is the third largest in the solar system.

Uranus is Neptune's twin and is one of the smaller gas giants in our solar system, but it is still large enough to hold 64 planets the size of Earth.
It has a mean distance from the Sun of 2.87 billion kilometers (1.78 billion miles). Uranus has at least 22 moons. The two largest moons, Titania and Oberon, were discovered by William Herschel in 1787.

The atmosphere of Uranus is composed of 83% hydrogen, 15% helium and 2% methane. The temperature in the upper atmosphere is very cold. Uranus has eleven known rings which contain dark, boulder-sized particles. Uranus' rings are distinctly different from those at Jupiter and Saturn.



(NASA)