On this day in 1787, the astronomer William Herschel discovered the moons Titania and Oberon, both of them orbiting Uranus. He later reported four more unrelated satellites, but they are not the topic of this megathread. Herschel was also the person who discovered Uranus itself.

Titania:

Titania , sometimes also designated Uranus III, is Uranus’ largest moon, and the 8th largest overall in the solar system. It is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and its orbit lies inside Uranus's magnetosphere. Titania has been studied up close only once, by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in January 1986.

Oberon

Oberon, which is sometimes, like Titania, given an alternate designation, this time Uranus IV, is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus. It is the second-largest and second most massive of Uranus’ moons, and the ninth largest overall. Oberon is named after the mythical king of the fairies who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Unlike Titania, its orbit lies partially outside Uranus's magnetosphere.

Uranus’ system of moons has been studied up close only once: the spacecraft Voyager 2 took several images of Oberon in January 1986, allowing 40% of the moon's surface to be mapped.

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  • TheCaconym [any]
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    2 years ago

    In France, they created an official visualization of COVID incidence rate per 100,000 population a while ago, updated daily, colored by region. The darker it goes, the worse off the region is in terms of COVID. People were laughing a while back because they even had to add "purple" and "black" as colors because the incidence rate went higher and higher.

    Here is that map right now under Omicron :yea:

    Of course since the scale hasn't been updated it doesn't show how much above 1000 the incidence rate is. In the Paris area, for example, it's around 4000. That's right, 4% of the entire population of the Paris area has COVID. The mean incidence rate nationally is above 2000.

    It seems most Western countries have collectively decided to go "fuck this, it's too contagious this time, let the plebs die".