Uranus

Uranus — planet, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

Knocked onto its side by an ancient collision, Uranus rolls around the Sun with its poles where its equator should be — each pole gets 42 years of daylight, then 42 years of night.

Radius
25,362 km
Mass
8.68 × 10²⁵ kg
Gravity
8.87 m/s²
Day
17 h 14 m, retrograde
Year
84.0 Earth years
Mean temp
−195 °C
Moons
28
Semi-major axis
19.2 AU

Seeing Uranus in real time

Cosmoscope puts Uranus at its true position in the solar system, computed from JPL-derived ephemeris and updated continuously. Open the live 3D view to see, in real time, how far Uranus is from the Sun and from Earth right now, how many minutes or hours light takes to cross that gap, and how fast it is moving along its orbit. Scrub the timeline to place Uranus where it was on any past date, or where it will be years from now.

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