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Forgotten sisters: women in the history of science

6d ago · 4 min read · Review published in italian on EduINAF. Tanks to Gabriella Bernardi for the translation. Published in 2016 by Spinger, Gabriella Bernardi’s The Unforgotten Sisters was and still is a valuable book, bo

Interstellar comet

Jul 9, 2025 · 2 min read · From the time Kepler was launched in 2009 until its mission concluded in 2018, it "discovered" over 3,000 planets orbiting stars within the Milky Way. Obviously, these discoveries came long after the data were actually collected, but the gist of the ...

The Universe Through the Eyes of the Vera Rubin Observatory

Jun 25, 2025 · 3 min read · In a perhaps slightly convoluted formula, on the English wiki we find written that: She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves. Her work on the galaxy rotation pro...

Earth Day: Pogo and our responsibility

Apr 22, 2025 · 2 min read · While I was researching around to write the article on Earth Day published on EduINAF, I discovered with great pleasure, but without being too surprised, that Walt Kelly with his most beloved character, Pogo, also joined the initiative born in 1970 t...

Carbon Content in Dwarf Stars

Apr 5, 2025 · 2 min read · About 90 percent of all stars, those with an initial mass up to about eight times the mass of the Sun, end their life as white dwarfs, very dense and compact stellar remnants destined to cool forever, becoming less and less bright. Before this happen...