Autumn Skywatching Treat: See Uranus and Neptune in the Night Sky

Space.com ^ | October 27, 2017 04:08pm ET | Joe Rao

[familyop]

There are two choices given by the dictionaries (both Oxford and Merriam-Webster).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4WuwXZaGgo
(Merriam-Webster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnVXWrZV4yE
(Oxford)

How Do You Pronounce Uranus?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQTKGXmITZg
“How do astronomers and scientists say the name of the 7th planet from the Sun?”

That’s the traditional, non-libertine way (Ur-in-us), which is also closer to the Greek but easier for Americans to say. Of the people from the sciences in the third video, the Lebanese in the medical school was the exception. Note his behavior. What a surprise. Enough said.

[minnesota_bound]

I never can make out those blue lines in the night sky.....

[BenLurkin]

Me neither.

[Albion Wilde]

It’s so cute that in the third video you linked, no matter how serious and scholarly these people are, they still noticeably blush when this question is asked, just from thinking about what the one guy called “the giggle factor.”

[Yaelle]

Using a magnification of 150x with a telescope of at least three-inch aperture, you just might be able to slip Uranus into a pale-green, featureless disk known by the name of Harvey Weinstein.

[familyop]

Yes. They would seem to be very gullible instructors for a mischievous older student to play with. ;-)

[Dick Bachert]

Sir, you made my day. THANK YOU!