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The five largest moons of Uranus – sometimes called the “classical moons” — appear in a jagged, roughly diagonal line from top right to bottom left. These are labeled Titania, Oberon, Umbriel, Miranda ...
Hubble's data points to a slow inward drift of dust from Uranus' distant irregular moons, which orbit between 2.5 to 13 million miles (4 to 20 million kilometers) from the planet.
Moons of Uranus surprise scientists in Hubble study by Space Telescope Science Institute edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...
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 ...