uranus88Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event. By Julian Dossett published 27 April 25 NASA researchers got a rare chance toUranus is approximately 3 billion km (1.89 billion miles) from the sun.It rotates on an extreme axial tilt of 97.77° and one day is only 17 hours on Uranus, however, it takes the planet 84 years to complete its rotation around the sun at an orbital