{"id":3235,"date":"2026-03-13T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:02:12","slug":"uranus-was-discovered-by-sir-william-herschel-in-1781","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Uranus Was Discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15222\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15222\" class=\" wp-image-15222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Uranus-from-Voyager-2-e1763164552263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uranus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781<\/strong>. The planet is actually a gas giant, composed of methane, helium and hydrogen. Its temperature hovers around -355 degrees Fahrenheit. Some scientists believe that despite the cold surface temperatures, a core about fifteen times the size of earth has a temperature of approximately 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It possesses at least five major moons, ten minor moons, and thirteen rings. Idea: Encourage children\u00a0to try to develop some kind of transport that could land on the gas giant. They could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/uranus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uranus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781. The planet is actually a gas giant, composed of methane, helium and hydrogen. Its temperature hovers around -355 degrees Fahrenheit. Some scientists believe that despite the cold surface temperatures, a core about fifteen times the size of earth has a temperature of approximately 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3235' 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":[4514,5382,3380,1233],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4514","tag-march-13","tag-sir-william-herschel","tag-uranus","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\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30496,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/30496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}