Hundreds of scientists across the globe worked together to do the seemingly impossible — capture an image of a black hole. This was also the year we lost a portion of the Amazon rainforest to a fire fuelled by greed. It’s on a mission known as the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (Mosaic) — the largest climate-change research expedition to the central Arctic. While China’s Chang’e-4 lander touched down smoothly on the moon’s far side in January, probes sent by the Israeli agency, SpaceIL, and the Indian Space Research Organisation crash-landed. Data released by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research shows that from January to July, fires consumed 4.6 million acres of the Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest.

Source: The Telegraph December 29, 2019 14:37 UTC