uranus88In Greek mythology, Uranus ( ˈ j ʊər ə n ə s YOOR-ə-nəs, also j ʊ ˈ r eɪ n ə s yoo-RAY-nəs), [2] sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky', ), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordialThe seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus orbits at about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km), more than 19 times farther than Earth's orbit.