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From black holes to asteroids, 2019 offered us new and wonderful discoveries in space. Last year had been an extremely good one for space science and Astronomy. On the first day of January this year, two spacecraft successfully arrived at their destinations, and everything went on from there.
Moreover, this year NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft took its place in Asteroid Bennu’s Orbit. The spacecraft reached Bennu early in December, and Bennu had been considered as the smallest thing a spacecraft has ever orbited. OSIRIS-Rex has also set the world record of orbiting closest to an object, and the same spacecraft broke the same record…

Researchers in NASA had a very special gift last Christmas Season which was a mass of moon soil from Apollo to study this year.
Last summer of 2019, NASA had their 50th anniversary of the “historic Apollo 11 mission” that successfully landed astronauts on the moon in the year 1969. The program Apollo had history of landings carrying 6 humans between the years 1969 and 1972, where astronauts were able to gain 382 kg of rocks as well as moon soil. Presently, scientists can study these samples from the moon in more detail with our advances in technology.
According to NASA, the fresh Apollo samples given last …

Black holes are like gloomy dots found in space that empowers itself with gravity and taking in anything it gets close to. But in reality, there are more things to know concerning black holes as physicist came to a view of these spots in space when they caught the very first image of a black hole.
They learned new bizarre discoveries such as a black hole’s tendency to grow and lose hair, their inside parts, and etc. So, here are two things that we have learned in 2019 about black holes.
1. Blacks holes can be bald and can have hair.
In history, scientists believed that every black hole was bald and only contained …