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Titania is the largest of the moons of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System at a diameter of 1578 kilometres (981 mi). Discovered by William Herschel in 1787 Titania is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Its orbit lies inside Uranus’s magnetosphere.Titania consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and rock and is probably differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle.

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