Uranus

Uranus Uranus, the first planet discovered in modern times, was discovered by William Hershel while systematically searching the sky with his telescope on March 13, 1781. It had actually been seen many times before but ignored as simply another star (the earliest recorded sighting was in 1690 when John Flamsteed cataloged it as 34 Tauri). Herschel named it "the Georgium Sidus" (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, the infamous (to Americans) King George IIIof England; others called it "Herschel". The name "Uranus" was first proposed by Bode in conformity with the other planetary names from classical mythology but didn't come uranus, uranus', voyager, times, sun, regions, planet, herschel, first, ecliptic, discovered, been, axis, almost, william, while, visited, until, unknown, underlying, time, telescope, tauri, systematically, star, spin, spacecraft, south, sky, simply, sighting, sidus, seen, searching, results, recorded