The duo should be visible with binoculars or a small telescope.
Though Uranus and the moon will make a close approach in the evening sky on Friday, this is just a matter of perspective from Earth and they will still remain widely separated in the solar system. The moon is just an average of 239,000 miles from, but the closest Uranus ever comes to our planet is 1.6 billion miles away. At their most widely separated there are 1.98 billion miles between Earth and Uranus.
That isn't the only vast difference between Uranus and the moon, as the classification"ice giant" suggests the seventh planet from the sun dwarfs our planet and its moon. With a diameter of 31,000 miles , Uranus is about four times the, which has a diameter of 7,900 miles . Earth itself is four times larger than the moon, which has a diameter of 2,100 miles , which means Uranus is almost 15 times the size of the moon.
The ice giant which is composed of an icy fluid of water, methane, and ammonia, over a solid rock core, also dwarfs Earth and the moon in terms of mass, possessing 14.5 times the mass of our planet. If you're hoping to see Uranus during this close approach to the waxing crescent moon our guides to the
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