Titania (moon)

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Titania, also designated Uranus III, is the largest moon of Uranus. At a diameter of 1,578 km (981 mi) it is the eighth largest moon in the Solar System, with a surface area comparable to that of Australia. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, it is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its orbit lies inside Uranus's magnetosphere.

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