{"id":1851,"date":"2026-01-11T00:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:31:17","slug":"william-herschel-discovered-titania-and-oberon-the-two-largest-moons-of-uranus-in-1787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"William Herschel Discovered Titania and Oberon, the Two Largest Moons of Uranus, in 1787"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5a\/Uranus_moons.jpg\/320px-Uranus_moons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"178\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bit of Uranus and some of its moons. Titania and Oberon are the last two on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, the two largest moons of Uranus, in 1787<\/strong>. Herschel, a German-born astronomer who had moved to England, discovered Uranus in 1781. Today we know Uranus has 27 moons and a ring! Herschel named the two moons after characters in Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cMidsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\u201d Children can learn more about the moons of Uranus at: <a href=\"http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus&amp;Display=Sats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moons of Uranus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, the two largest moons of Uranus, in 1787. Herschel, a German-born astronomer who had moved to England, discovered Uranus in 1781. Today we know Uranus has 27 moons and a ring! Herschel named the two moons after characters in Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cMidsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\u201d Children can learn more about the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1851' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4925,4924,4922,4921,1233,3911,4923],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4925","tag-january-11","tag-oberon","tag-titania","tag-uranus","tag-william-herschel","tag-midsummer-nights-dream","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26266,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/26266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}