Our neat planet Uranus is the seventh planet from our sun. It is lying around a distance of about 2,900 million km. Around 1,800 million miles. For Uranus it takes around 84 years to orbit around the sun. Uranus was found in 1781. Did you know that Uranus spins on its side.Uranus is made up mostly of hydrogen gas, with helium and tiny amounts oother gases.Because it has all of those gases it is both blue and green just like Neptune. It takes Uranus 18 hours just to go around once. Uranus has 15 moons going around it. Some of the names of the moons are: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Miranda and Oberson.