The Bard in Our Solar System

Environmental & Science Education, STEM, Earth & Space Science, Solar System, Cosmology, Astronomy, Astrophysics

Ed Hessler

I didn't know that of the 25 of 27 moons of Uranus, all of them are named after characters in Shakespeare plays.

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) has a spectacular shot, courtesy of the Webb Space Telescope, of this ice planet (see the Wiki entry for an explanation of what the meaning of "ice" is). Fourteen moons are annotated. It includes the usual explanation. 

"Shakespeare's Astronomy" by Dorothea Havens Chappell was published in 1945 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (57 (338), pp. 255 - 259) You may read it here.