Oberon (moon)
Oberon is the outermost major moon of the planet Uranus. Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Oberon is named after the mythical king of the fairies who appears as a character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oberon orbits Uranus at a distance of about 584,000 km, being the farthest from the planet among its five major moons.
