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     Because Uranus is the 7th major planet from the sun, not only is it cold, but its b bely visible too. During the night the only way you can chitchat it is through binoculars or telescope sometimes on a clear night its visible to the naked eye. Even from the planet it is dark. Only 15moons are able to be seen, the rest is too dark to tell.Uranus was discovered with a telescope, by William Herschel. Uranus reaches a maximum brightness of magnitude 5.5 and can be seen by the naked eye as a faint point of light in a clear, moonless sky. In Voyager 2 photos, Uranus appears as a chiefly featureless disk, except for considerable darkening toward the edges. Faint banding is seen in contrast enhanced images, which are clouds.Uranuss average distance from the Sun is 2.875 billion km, and the planet takes 84.01 Earth years to make one revolution about the sun. The inclination of Uranuss orbit is 0.742. Its period of rotation was determined by Voyager 2 to be 17.24 ho urs. adept weird aspect of Uranus is that its ration axis inclined 97.54 degrees from its orbital plane. The circumference of Uranus is 160,454km. This means that the poles of Uranus lie nearly in the plane of its orbit path.Uranus has an equatorial diameter of 51,100km almost precisely four times that of the Earth. The volume is approximantly 67 times greater than Earth. The gravity is 1.17 times greater than that of Earth. The dark bands discovered in 1869 in the red part Uranus were identified in 1932 as being caused by methane gas in Uranuss atmosphere. This red "spot" of Uranus is the major cause of the blue fleeceable color of the planet the methane absorbs much of the red light from the impinging white sunlight, leaving a bluish green color in the reflected sunlight. Measurements by Voyager 2verified that hydrogen is the main constituent, about 15% in terms of molecular weight, which is a larger percentage than in the atmospheres of either Jupiter or