Amazing image.
General view also showing some of its moons.
Note the background galaxies in the image as well.
Note the background galaxies in the image as well.
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JWST infra-red image of Uranus.
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Looks like the moons were named by a Shakespear fanAmazing image.
General view also showing some of its moons.
Note the background galaxies in the image as well.
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Moons of Uranus - Wikipedia
Herschel [the son of the discoverer of Uranus and also an astronomer], instead of assigning names from Greek mythology, named the moons after magical spirits in English literature: the fairies Oberon and Titania from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the sylph Ariel and gnome Umbriel from Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (Ariel is also a sprite in Shakespeare's The Tempest).
Subsequent names, rather than continuing the airy spirits theme (only Puck and Mab continued the trend), have focused on Herschel's source material. In 1949, the fifth moon, Miranda, was named by its discoverer Gerard Kuiper after a thoroughly mortal character in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The current IAU practice is to name moons after characters from Shakespeare's plays and The Rape of the Lock
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