How to Pronounce Uranus Pronouncing Uranus is a bit of a choose-your-own-adventure. The big question is whether it's "YUR-uh-nuss" or "yur-AY-nuss." As linguist James Harbeck once pointed out, the ...

How to Pronounce Uranus How Did Uranus Get Its Name? Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it was a star.