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4 days ago · The four outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, giant planets that consist mainly of either gases or ice. Pluto was considered the ninth planet until 2006, when the International Astronomical Union voted to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet instead.
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1 day ago · Earth, third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass.
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5 days ago · The planet Uranus, seen here in an image by the James Webb Space Telescope, has a tilted magnetic field and anomalous radiation belts. Future missions to the icy giant could reveal more.
2 days ago · Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; only the Moon, Venus, and sometimes Mars are more brilliant. Jupiter takes nearly 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and it rotates once about every 10 hours.
3 days ago · Uranus is sixth magnitude and is visible in an extremely dark sky. The "average" human eye can see to about 6.3 magnitude in the blackest of skies. Uranus would be very difficult to spot, but not impossible.
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1 day ago · In this model, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune would have formed even further out than Jupiter, and Saturn would also have migrated inwards. Physical characteristics. Jupiter is a gas giant, meaning its chemical composition is primarily hydrogen and helium.
This page shows Uranus location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details).
