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Uranus

Uranus is a gas giant with no solid surface. It has some of the brightest clouds in the outer solar system and 11 rings. Its scale size is comparable to a large grapefruit. The first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel. The seventh planet from the Sun is so distant that it takes 84 years to complete one orbit.

Info from NASA.gov

Uranus, (YUR uh nuhs or yu RAY nuhs), is the seventh planet from the Sun. Only Neptune and Pluto are farther away. Uranus is the farthest planet that can be seen without a telescope. Its average distance from the Sun is about 1,784,860,000 miles (2,872,460,000 kilometers), a distance that takes light about 2 hours 40 minutes to travel. [+]Read more at NASA.gov

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