A similar power source was used on the recent Voyager probe of Neptune.
The star is notable because the Voyager 1 probe will pass within 1.6 light years of it in about 40,000 years.
Two weeks later, the twin Voyager 1 probe would be launched on September 5, 1977.
The twin Voyager 2 probe had been launched two weeks earlier, on August 20, 1977.
Uranus has only been visited once, by the Voyager 2 probe.
Galatea was found in late July 1989 from the images taken by the Voyager 2 probe.
The Voyager 2 probe is intercepted by an alien ship.
The Voyager probes went past the planet during its northern hemisphere's spring, which allowed them to image the planet's north pole.
An additional eight satellites were subsequently discovered before the flyby of the Voyager 1 probe in 1979.
Vicki, I'll bet they were there when the Voyager probe went past.