Titania, named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is the eighth largest moon in the Solar System.

Miranda, named after Prospero's daughter in The Tempest, has one of the most extreme and varied topographies of any object in the Solar System, including Verona Rupes, a 20-kilometer-high cliff.

A day on Uranus is 17 hours, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.

The extreme pressure and temperature deep within Uranus may break up methane molecules, with the carbon atoms condensing into crystals of diamond that rain down through the mantle like hailstones. Very-high-pressure experiments at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory suggest that the base of the mantle may comprise an ocean of liquid diamond, with floating solid 'diamond-bergs'.

William Herschel called the new planet the "Georgian star" (Georgium sidus) after King George III, which brought him favour from the king, but the name didn't stick. In France, where reference to the British king was to be avoided if possible, the planet was known as "Herschel" until the name "Uranus" was universally adopted.

The intensity of sunlight on Uranus is 1/400 the intensity of sunlight on Earth.

Voyager 2 discovered 11 previously unknown moons: Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck and Perdita.

Caliban, named for the monster forced into labor by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, follows a distant orbit, more than 10 times further from Uranus than the furthest regular moon Oberon.

The ε ring is the brightest and densest part of the Uranian ring system. It is responsible for about two-thirds of the light reflected by the rings.

Although the moons of Uranus are named for Shakespearean characters, Sir John Falstaff (considered by some critics to be Shakespeare's greatest creation) has yet to be honored with his own moon.