Located approximately 1.8 billion miles or 2.9 billion kilometers from the Sun,

19 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun is the seventh planet in the solar system, Uranus, or Uranus.

Uranus is unlike any other planet in the solar system in several important ways,

and its discovery was unlike the discovery of any planet up until that point in time.

Since its discovery, our understanding of the planet has increased by leaps and bounds,

and we're still learning more about it today.

Learn more about Uranus, what it is and how it was discovered on this episode of Everything Everywhere

Daily. Okay. Okay, I might as well address the elephant in the room.

The first thing that all of you probably thought when you saw the title of this episode. How do you probably the

the title of this episode. How do you pronounce the name of the seventh planet from the sun?

This is probably the overwhelmingly most popular issue

when the subject of this planet comes up in popular culture.

If you pull astronomers, they will almost universally tell you that the name of the seventh

planet is Uranus. Likewise, if you check various dictionaries and pronunciation guides

they will also confirm that Uranus is how the planet is pronounced.

Therefore for the remainder of this episode that is what I will be calling it, even though I know many of you probably pronounce it, Uranus.

The Uranus pronunciation, of course, generates tons of giggles and puns.

I will be addressing the history of the pronunciation later in the episode, but as for the rest of this episode,

rest assured, I will not be talking about the rings around Uranus or

about sending probes to Uranus. So with that, the planet Uranus was the first

planet discovered that was not one of the original seven planets known to antiquity.

The Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

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