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Since Uranus' orbit is exceptionally slow, orbiting the sun about once every 84 Earth years, it'll be mostly in the same spot it was this year when Earth comes around again next year.
Uranus, captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 on Jan. 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet for the orbit of Neptune.
Since Uranus' orbit is exceptionally slow, orbiting the sun about once every 84 Earth years, it'll be mostly in the same spot it was this year when Earth comes around again next year.