The Earth passed its closest approach to Uranus for 2013 about two weeks ago. In this photo, the blue-green planet is about 19.075 AU (astronomical units) away from us—a little over 1 ¾ billion miles.
Right now Uranus happens to be in a relatively dark part of the sky, in the constellation Pisces; it appears brighter than any of the nearby stars. The brightest of those stars is the orange giant HD 3457, below and to the left of Uranus in the photo.
