Urania (disambiguation)

Urania is a muse in Greek mythology.

Urania may also refer to:

Mythology

 * 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

Magazines and journals

 * Urania, a German science magazine published by Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse
 * Urania (journal), a genderqueer feminist journal circulated between 1916 and 1940
 * Urania (magazine), a number of science fiction magazines
 * Urania - Postępy Astronomii, a Polish popular science magazine

Literature

 * The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, a work by Lady Mary Wroth
 * Urania (original title Uranie), 1889 work by Camille Flammarion
 * Urania, a poem by Samuel Austin

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