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 Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun in our solar system. It is also the 3rd biggest planet. It was named after a Greek go of the sky. Though Uranus is visible from the naked eye it was the 1st planet discovered by a telescope. Sir William Herschel announced his discovery of Uranus in 1781, March 17th. Uranus ’ s has a different composition than most of the larger gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus ’ s atmosphere is more cold and icy where Jupiter and Saturn ’ s atmosphere is like hydrogen and helium. Uranus is the coldest planet known in our solar system with a minimum temperature of -224 [|°] [|C]. Uranus has a complex, layered cloud structure, with water which makes up the lowest of clouds, and methane which makes up the upper layer of clouds. Uranus is mainly composed of water, ice and rock. Like other planets, Uranus has a big ring around it and has a number of moons. Uranus ’ s rind is unique because of its axis is nearly tilted sideways. If you look at Uranus from earth from a telescope it almost looks exactly like an archery target and the moons revolve around it like the hands of a clock. There has ever only been 1 probe to reach Uranus which is Voyager 2, which showed us that Uranus is a virtually featureless planet in light. However observers have seen signs of seasons that change and increase the weather activity in the past couple of years. The wind speeds on Uranus can reach up to 900  km/h  