Titania is the largest moon of Uranus, discovered by the astronomer William Herschel with his reflecting telescope at Slough in England, along with Oberon. It is about 1,580 kilometres in diameter, roughly half the size of Earth's Moon, and is made of a mixture of water ice and rock. The moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope, and Titania, the queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream, was named by Herschel's son John in 1852. In 1986 the spacecraft Voyager 2 flew past and showed a surface with craters and huge canyons, which suggest that it expanded as its interior froze.
Before and after
- 1787Publication of Don Giovanni
- c. 1787Birth of Shaka Zulu
- 1787Discovery of strontium
- 1787Discovery of yttrium
- 11 January 1787Discovery of Titania
- 11 January 1787Discovery of Oberon
- from 13 August 1787 to 29 December 1791Seventh Russo-Turkish War
- from 13 September 1787 to 10 October 1787Prussian invasion of Holland
- 17 September 1787United States Constitution
More in Universe & space
- 13 March 1781Discovery of Uranus
- 28 August 1789Discovery of Enceladus
- 23 September 1846Discovery of Neptune
- 10 October 1846Discovery of Triton
- 12 August 1877Discovery of Deimos
- 17 August 1877Discovery of Phobos
The era
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