Uranus
ice giant · tipped on its side
18 AU from Earth
Knocked over by an ancient collision, it rolls around the Sun with its axis tilted 98°, so each pole gets 42 years of daylight.
- radius 25,360 km · 19 AU from the Sun
- light from the Sun takes 2 h 40 min to arrive
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
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- place in the Solar System
- distance
- 19.4 AU from the Sun
- size
- 50,700 km across
- orbits
- the Sun
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