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2019: Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon. [83] 2019: NASA concludes the 15-year Opportunity rover mission after being unable to wake the rover from hibernation. [84] 2019: The first image of the supermassive black hole inside galaxy Messier 87 was captured by the Event Horizon ...
15 January 2010: Marshall Warren Nirenberg, a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, dies aged 82. 3 January John Keith Irwin (b. 1929), sociologist, specialist in the American prison system. Francis Gillingham (b. 1916), neurosurgeon, stereotactic surgery pioneer. 10 January – Donald Acheson (b. 1926), epidemiologist, former UK Chief ...
2019 in science (9 C, ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 2010s in science and technology; 0–9. 2010 in science; 2010s in psychology; 2011 in science;
10 January – Astronomers propose that AT2018cow, a very powerful astronomical explosion, 10–100 times brighter than a normal supernova, may have been a white dwarf being pulled apart by a black hole; or, a supernova leaving behind a black hole or a neutron star, the creation of a compact body being observed for the first time. [19] [20] [21]
Nature 's 10 is an annual listicle of ten "people who mattered" in science, produced by the scientific journal Nature. Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad. Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad.
In 2010, Dictionary.com announced its first word of the year, 'change', and has done so in December every year since. [38] The selection is based on search trends on the site throughout the year and the news events that drive them. [39] The following is the list of annual words since beginning with the first in 2010: [38]
Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]
2019: The first image of a black hole is captured, using eight different telescopes taking simultaneous pictures, timed with extremely precise atomic clocks. [1] 2020: NASA and SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) discover about 12 US fl oz (350 ml) of surface water in one of the Moon's largest visible craters.