Urania (disambiguation)
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Urania is a muse in Greek mythology. Urania may also refer to:
Mythology
- Urania, daughter of Zeus and muse of astronomy
- Aphrodite Urania, a title for the Greek goddess Aphrodite, as opposed to Aphrodite Pandemos
- Urania, an Oceanid
People
- Julia Urania, wife of Roman client King Ptolemy of Mauretania
- Urania Papatheu (born 1965), Italian politician
Places
- Urânia, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
- Urania, Louisiana, a town in the United States
- Urania, Michigan, a former community
- Urania, South Australia, a locality in the Yorke Peninsula Council
Publications
Magazines and journals
- Urania, a German science magazine published by Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse
- Urania (magazine), a number of science fiction magazines
- Urania - Postępy Astronomii, a Polish popular science magazine
Literature
- The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621), a work by Lady Mary Wroth
- Urania (original title Uranie), 1889 work by Camille Flammarion
- Urania, a poem by Samuel Austin
Science
Buildings
- Hala Urania, an indoor arena in Olsztyn, Poland
- Urania (Berlin), the first science center in the world, founded in Berlin in 1888
- Urania (Vienna), an observatory
- Urania Sternwarte, an observatory in Zurich
Other
- 30 Urania, an asteroid
- Unified Reduced Non-Inductive Assessment (URANIA), an upgrade to Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
- Urania (moth), a moth genus in subfamily Uraniinae
- Urania, a synonym for a genus of plants, Ravenala
- Uranium dioxide, or urania, or uranic oxide
- Yellowcake, also called urania, concentrated uranium ore
Other uses
- Italian ship Urania, several ships of that name
- Urania Genève Sport, a Swiss football club
- Urania Records, an American classical and jazz record label founded in 1951
- Uranian (sexology), a 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sex
See also
- Uraniborg, dedicated to Urania, the first observatory in modern Europe built 1576–1580
- Ourania (disambiguation)
- Uranus (disambiguation)
- The Urantia Book, a spiritual and religious book
