Uranus is a blue gas planet which is on the other side of the asteroid belt from earth it has a radius of 25,362 km. It was discovered by William Herschel on the 13th march 1781. There are 6 planets in between Earth and Uranus. Uranus was the first planet to be discovered by telescope. This planet was named after the god of the sky. In 1986 images from the "voyager 2" showed Uranus as a virtually featureless planet. Its mass is 86,810,300,000,000,000 billion kg, making it fourteen and a half times the mass of earth.
