Map of the Universe
Miranda
Moon · Moon of Uranus
About Miranda
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Miranda was 19.5 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 2.7 hours to reach it.
It goes round its planet once every 1.41 days, 129,879 km away on average.
It is about 471.6 km across.
The map lists it as a moon and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Orbit radius (semi-major axis) | 129,879 km |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 1.41 days |
| Eccentricity | 0.0013 |
| Inclination | 99.19° |
| Radius | 235.8 km |
| Distance from the Sun | 19.5 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Uranus › Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Miranda (moon), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.