Out of the eight planets in our solar system, Uranus is the seventh farthest away from the sun and cannot be seen by the naked eye. It was actually the first planet to be discovered with the use of a telescope. The discovery of Uranus was made on March 13th, 1781 by William Herschel, a british astronomer and composer who was born in Germany. Uranus is described to be “rolling around on the sun on its side” because of the fact that is was tipped on its side with a tilt of ninety-eight degrees. Herschel originally thought that he discovered a comet but after a few years it was classified as a planet. Herschel wanted to name it “Georgian Sidus” after the monarch of that day, King George the III but another astronomer, Johann Bode, suggested