The Dark Side of the Moon

Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about our lovely moon. The Moon has been our natural satellite for the past 4.5 billion years, yet we got to know what’s on its other side only recently, with the advent of the space exploration era.  But how did a whole 19 million square kilometres elude …

History of Stellar Classification

Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about the history of stellar classification and the women who developed it. In 1901, in Harvard, the scientist Edward Charles Pickering assembled a team of women to map and classify the different types of stars. The leader of the team was the astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, who …

The Myth around Wingtip Vortices

Good morning EUROAVIAns,we are excited to present Fact Friday, a new section in which, once a week, we’ll talk about the latest in technology, scientific state-of-the-art and new phenomena in physics!We hope you enjoy it! The beautiful vortices that you see detaching from the wingtips are, in Italian, usually referred to as the “trecce di …