Uranus
An ice giant tipped on its side, just visible to the eye from a very dark site if you know exactly where to look.
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Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Diameter
- 51,118 km
- Distance from the Sun
- 2,867.0 million km on average
- A year there lasts
- 30,589 Earth days, about 83.7 years
- A day there, from noon to noon
- 17.2 hours
- Average temperature
- −195 °C
- Known moons
- 28, and a system of rings
Figures from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NSSDCA fact sheets. All sources