Second, Saturn is the father of Jupiter in mythology, and Uranus’s Roman counterpart (Caelus) is the father of Saturn, making a neat hierarchy in the order of the planets.

In Roman mythology, Saturn is the father of Jupiter, so the new planet used the Greek name for Saturn's father - Uranus. When another new planet was announced almost 100 years later, it was named ...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and was the first to be discovered with a telescope. ... It is the only planet to be named after a Greek god rather than a Roman one.

Uranus was one of the earliest gods in Greek mythology. He was the god of the sky and the son/husband of Gaia, the mother of the Earth.

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 ...

Uranus has 27 moons and, ... All of them represent Greek and Roman water mythology. The largest moon is Triton, which is nearly as large as Earth’s Moon. The most recently discovered ...

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).

An infrared composite image of the two hemispheres of Uranus obtained with Keck Telescope adaptive optics. (NASA JPL) Discovered in 1781, Uranus was named after the primordial Greek god of the ...