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"Is this all real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
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- " [...] I think you must have misheard Professor Sinistra, Europa's covered in ice, not mice."
- —Hermione Granger correcting Harry Potter's essay about Jupiter's Moons[src]
Europa is one of Jupiter's moons. This natural satellite is covered in ice. It is studied in Astronomy class, at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- In the Muggle world, Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (and possibly independently by Simon Marius), and named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa, who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete.[2]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 14 (Percy and Padfoot)
- ↑ Europa
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| Professors: Aurora Sinistra | |||||
| Astronomy at Hogwarts: Astronomy department · Astronomy Tower · Astronomy Room · Astronomy Stairs · Astronomy Corridor · Astronomy reading room · Astronomy classroom | |||||
| Astronomers: Aurora Sinistra · Copernicus · George von Rheticus · Perpetua Fancourt | |||||
| Objects: Globe of the Moon · Lunascope · Moon chart · Orrery · Star chart · Telescope | |||||
| Planets: Jupiter · Mars · Mercury · Neptune · Pluto · Saturn · Uranus · Venus | |||||
| Satellites: Callisto · Europa · Ganymede · Io · Moon | |||||
| Constellations: Bartholomeus · Orion | |||||