William Herschel had proposed the name Georgium Sidus for his 1781 discovery to honour King George III. German astronomer Johann Elert Bode later suggested Uranus, the Latinised name of the Greek god ...

The Milky Way. Credit: ESA/ Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Mythology and astral symbolism. In Greek mythology, Uranus was the primordial sky god, father of the ...

Herschel discovered Uranus while surveying stars in the night sky using a telescope that he had built himself. While observing one of these ‘stars’ he noticed it was orbiting the Sun and was indeed a ...

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Six planets - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus - made an appearance together in a celestial spectacle that captured the attention of sky-gazers across the globe on Saturday night.

Depiction of Uranus on the Pergamon Altar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0. The connection between the Bible’s story of Noah and Greek mythology is usually discussed in the context of the ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ago. I speak of the 7th planet from the Sun, and third largest in our solar system, which received a flyby — 50,000 miles above the planet — from ...

A year after Hershel's discovery, writes Popular Science, German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name: Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god of the sky: Ouranos (Ew-rah-nose).

Uranus is the butt of a lot of jokes, ... German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name: Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god of the sky: Ouranos (Ew-rah-nose).

In Greek mythology, Uranus was the first sky god, says Ash, who locked his children in the Underworld, who were then challenged to avenge their demise by Gaea, aka the personification of the earth.