A time lapse photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Uranus showing the movement of its mysterious auroras. Another little known fact about Uranus is that it has a ring. - pix by ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Lamy/Observatoire de Paris (CC BY 2.0)
URANUS has been the butt of many a schoolkid's joke during science class, thanks to its rather "quirky" yet misunderstood name, more or less since its discovery in 1781 by William Herschel.
He actually wanted to call his newly discovered ice giant George, after the then King of England, George III, but settled on calling it Uranus after the Greek deity of the sky.
