The Most Important Scientific Discoveries and Events of 2020

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 it's unlikely that anyone would
 argue with the fact that the year 2020 watch in events most of them were let's just say not very happy and yet while the world struggled not to descend into chaos science wasn't standing still in just one year many major discoveries were made and things happened that may change the fate of humanity in the future if you missed everything it's not a problem because in this articles I've compiled for you the most interesting summary of this year even without following the news you may have heard about the manned flights of the reusable crew dragon spacecraft you've probably seen
 jokes about the chips that
 Elon musk plans to implant in people's brains it seems that this doesn't surprise anyone and what about the nearest black hole to earth scientists have found that in the hr-6819 star system located just a thousand light years from  earth in addition to two companion stars there is such an object on the one hand this is far enough away but on the other a little disturbing news if you expect that the large Hadrian collider will destroy the earth sooner or later then the next news will also seem frightening an international research team from the European organization for nuclear research has discovered for the first time a new type of particle that consists of four quarks previously only Hadrian consisting of two or three quarks were known this discovery was made thanks to the large Hadrian collider and it should help in the study of the fundamental forces of nature or could it accidentally destroy all life while researchers on earth were studying new particles the international space station came close to understanding dark energy for the first time they observed the fifth aggregate state of matter back in school we were taught that there are only four of them solid liquid gas and plasma but now it seems that we'll have to rewrite the textbooks. Bose-Einstein condensate can only be produced at ultra-low temperatures it's extremely difficult to study it on earth since the ambient temperature and gravity prevent keeping the matter in the desired state but in 2020 it was possible to do it in space what about life outside of earth in the fall of 2020 scientists were able to detect Phoniness in the atmosphere of Venus after a long analysis the researchers said that the likely source of this chemical could only be something living and this is on Venus a hot planet where the clouds contain sulfuric acid, of course, some scientists question this hypothesis instead they suggest that the gas may have been formed by unexplained atmospheric or geological processes but what if we've been looking for life too far from the earth all this time, in fact, all the planets including earth are hiding many unknown things we don't know their exact composition but scientists still make assumptions. Take a look if you haven't seen it yet and now about mercury it's located closer to the sun than other planets and is heated to an incredible 806 degrees Fahrenheit of course this isn't suitable for life in any way however it is possible that mercury may once have been inhabited the authors of a new article published in the journal scientific reports found that in the distant past this planet was quite comfortable mercury still retains traces of simple organic substances the building blocks of living matter most likely the period of life there wasn't very long because of its proximity to the sun and the organisms were primitive however scientists were able not only to observe a space object from afar but to also literally touch one of them NASA managed to bring the interplanetary station Osiris-Rex to the surface of the asteroid 101 955 Ben nu the contact was very short and lasted only a few seconds but it was enough to take soil samples this is a truly historic event for which scientists have been preparing for several years in addition this asteroid is potentially dangerous for a planet perhaps thanks to the obtained samples we'll be able to learn more about such objects but perhaps the most difficult object to study in the solar system is the sun itself in February 2020 the atlas v 411 rocket carrying the solar orbiter station was successfully launched from the cape Canaveral space center this automated spacecraft designed to explore the sun promises to produce unique data the orbit in which the solar orbiter will operate will allow it to study the polar regions of the sun.

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