Yet Janda ( 2010 ) considers the connection with " foam " genuine, identifying the myth of Aphrodite rising out of the waters after Cronus defeats Uranus as a mytheme of Proto-Indo-European age.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

Jupiter, Saturn with its ring system, Uranus, and Neptune

In St. Petersburg on 18 September 1783, after a lunch with his family, during a conversation with a fellow academician Anders Johan Lexell about the newly discovered Uranus and its orbit, Euler suffered a brain hemorrhage and died a few hours later.

Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere, as are the other planets with intrinsic magnetic fields: Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.

Hussey reported that when he suggested to Bouvard that the unusual motion of Uranus might be due to the gravitational influence of an undiscovered planet, Bouvard replied that the idea had occurred to him, and that he had corresponded with Peter Andreas Hansen, director of the Seeberg Observatory in Gotha, about the subject.

*, which has the most elliptical orbit ( its eccentricity is 0. 33 ), with the perihelion halfway between Uranus and Neptune

Uranus was disgusted with his children, the Hecatonchires, so he hid them away somewhere in Gaia.

The first was the Oceanid Metis, whom he swallowed to avoid begetting a son who, as had happened with Cronus and Uranus, would overthrow him, as well as to absorb her wisdom so that she could advise him in the future.

He became famous for his discovery of the planet Uranus, along with two of its major moons ( Titania and Oberon ), and also discovered two moons of Saturn.

Replica in the William Herschel Museum, Bath, Somerset | Bath, of a telescope similar to that with which Herschel discovered Uranus

* January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.

The term for this class of objects is a partial misnomer that originated ( 1784 or 1785 ) with astronomer William Herschel, because when viewed through his telescope, these objects appeared to be clouds ( nebulae ) that were similar in appearance to Uranus, the planet that had been discovered telescopically by Herschel.

To early observers with low-resolution telescopes, M27 and subsequently discovered planetary nebulae somewhat resembled the giant planets like Uranus, and William Herschel, discoverer of this planet, eventually coined the term ' planetary nebula ' for them, although, as we now know, they are very different from planets.

Current speculation is that Uranus started off with a typical prograde orientation and was knocked on its side by a large impact early in its history.

A census of Triton's craters imaged by Voyager 2 found only 179 that were incontestably of impact origin, compared with 835 observed for Uranus ' moon Miranda, which has only three percent of Triton's surface area.

The second myth features Saturn, who eviscerated his father Uranus, god of the sky, with a sickle which, falling into the sea, created the city.

In 2008, a trans-Neptunian object with a retrograde orbit similar to Halley's was discovered,, whose orbit takes it from just outside that of Uranus to twice the distance of Pluto.

it was the first-known member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs, with an orbit between Saturn and Uranus.

Tuesday is also associated with Uranus.

Cronus, another son of Uranus and Gaia, later freed the Cyclopes, along with the Hecatonchires, after he had overthrown Uranus.

From Gaia came Uranus ( Sky ), the Ourea ( Mountains ), and Pontus ( Sea ).

Uranus and Gaia prophesied to him that one of his children would overthrow him, so when he married Rhea, he made sure to swallow each of the children she birthed: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus ( in that order ).

However, Rhea asked Gaia and Uranus for help in saving Zeus by sending Rhea to Crete to bear Zeus and giving Cronus a huge stone to swallow thinking that it was another of Rhea's children.

In Greek mythology, the Titans ( Greek: — Ti-tan ; plural: — Ti-tânes ) were a primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia ( Earth ) and Uranus ( Heaven ), that ruled during the legendary Golden Age.

When the Titans were defeated, many of them ( including Menoetius ) were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to stand at the western edge of Gaia ( the Earth ) and hold up Uranus ( the Sky ) on his shoulders, to prevent the two from resuming their primordial embrace.

The titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus:

In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus releases three Cyclopes, the sons of Uranus and Gaia, from the dark pit of Tartarus.

In the Theogony by Hesiod, the Cyclopes – Brontes (" thunderer "), Steropes (" lightning ") and the " bright " Arges ( Greek: Ἄργης, Βρόντης, and Στερόπης ) – were the primordial sons of Uranus ( Sky ) and Gaia ( Earth ) and brothers of the Hecatonchires.

In classic mythology, below Uranus ( sky ), Gaia ( earth ), and Pontus ( sea ) is Tartarus, or Tartaros ( Greek: Τάρταρος, from τάρταρον " tartar encrusting the sides of casks ").

Rhea (; ) was the Titaness daughter of the sky god Uranus and the earth goddess Gaia, in Greek mythology.

Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus in that order, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born except Zeus, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own child as he had overthrown his own father.

When Zeus was about to be born, however, Rhea sought Uranus and Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children.

In Greek mythology, the Giants were the children of Gaia, who was fertilized by the blood of Uranus, after Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus.

In Greek mythology, Hesiod mentions Themis among the six sons and six daughters of Gaia and Uranus ( Earth and Sky ).

The stage for this important battle was set after the youngest Titan, Cronus, overthrew his own father, Uranus ( Ουρανός, the Heaven itself and ruler of the cosmos ), with the help of his mother, Gaia ( Γαία, the earth ).

Uranus drew the enmity of Gaia when he imprisoned her children the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus.

Gaia created a great sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to convince them to castrate Uranus.

When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked Uranus and, with the sickle, cut off his genitals, casting them into the sea.

Amongst the fruits of his industry may be mentioned a laborious investigation of the disturbances of Jupiter by Saturn, the results of which were employed and confirmed by Euler in his prize essay of 1748 ; a series of lunar observations extending over fifty years ; some interesting researches in terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity, in the latter of which he detected a regular diurnal period ; and the determination of the places of a great number of stars, including at least twelve separate observations of Uranus, between 1750 and its discovery as a planet.