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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  • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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    Watching a Spanish show on Netflix to practice my Spanish that takes place in Spain. Current episode I'm on they're having a debate about whether the incarceration rate in Spain is too high, because it's one of the highest in Europe. Looked it up and it's nearly five times lower than the US incarceration rate.

    • basil [any]
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      3 years ago

      now you'll be able to introduce yourself and have VERY NUANCED conversations in spanish

      -basil 🤔

    • Rem [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      What show?

      I'm looking to do the same with French.

      • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Elite, I'm watching the latest season and it's easily the worst one yet but I'm just finishing it for the practice. I'm also learning French though and I enjoyed Family Business. It's a comedy about a family that starts selling marijuana. I'm also meaning to check out Lupin next, heard great things about it.

        • Rem [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          I've also heard Lupin is good! Rn I'm trying to make the step from French audio with English subtitles to French with French, because that seems much more productive, and my vocabulary + familiarity with common words and phrases has gotten better so hopefully I'll be able to.

          • PeterTheAverage [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            The switch is tough but it helps your learning so much. It'll be very slow-going at first, you'll have to hover over the pause button and episodes will take twice as long to watch as you're looking up new words, but over time you'll end up only having to pause a few times an episode. You'll also start to realize how much is lost in translation.

            • Rem [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              You’ll also start to realize how much is lost in translation.

              I suspected this! There's a lot of connotation and specificity from word choice that u can't really always replicate in a different language with a different set of words available.