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In astrology, the planet Uranus is the ruling planet of Aquarius. Since Uranus is colored cyan and Uranus is associated with electricity, the color electric blue, a color close to cyan, is associated with the sign Aquarius. (See Uranus in astrology)
The chemical element uranium, discovered in 1789 by the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, was named after the newly discovered planet Uranus. Uranus, the Magician is a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets, written between 1914 and 1916. Operation Uranus was the successful military operation in World War II by the Soviet army to take back Stalingrad and marked the turning point in the land war against the Wehrmacht.
The line, Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/When a new planet swims into his ken, from John Keats's On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer is a reference to Herschel's discovery of Uranus.
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