The year 2024 had many highlights in Science and Technology editorials from the news portal CNN . Check out the 12 most notable texts from the period below.
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In January the text with the highest audience dealt with the case of astronomers who tracked and discovered the origin of a mysterious radio signal.
The discovery helped think about the causes of mysterious bursts of radio waves, which have puzzled scientists for years. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are intense bursts of radio waves lasting milliseconds and origins unknown.
Astronomers used images from the Hubble Space Telescope to reveal that the fast radio burst came from a group of at least seven galaxies that are so close to each other that they could all fit inside the Milky Way.
In the month of February Japan’s dormant lunar module that “woke up unexpectedly” and sent back images of the Moon’s surface was the main highlight.
A photograph taken by the Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 shows Japan’s SLIM spacecraft on the moon.
Already in March it was the turn of a click farm from Vietnam to catch the attention of readers. A photographer managed to record rare images of these environments and publish them for the world to see.
The images, which show young people amidst huge computational structures in a kind of amateur laboratory, are part of the book “Beggar’s Honey”.
Natural phenomena also had a lot of audience throughout 2024. In April an eclipse in Brazil proved an Einstein theory made more than 100 years ago.
The General Theory of Relativity could only be tested and proven (or not) when there was a total solar eclipse, which would make it possible to observe the stars behind the Sun and whether the brightness emitted by them would undergo a deflection as it passed through space deformed by the Sun’s mass.
In the month of May, photos of the aurora borealis that lit up the sky during a rare solar storm were the highlight. Click on the link above to see the natural spectacle they produced in shades of violet and green.
Another natural phenomenon that captivated CNN readers was the alignment of the planets that could be seen from Brazil in the month of June.
The phenomenon, called a conjunction in astronomy, could be seen from both the northern and southern hemispheres.
The following month, July the discovery of black oxygen by scientists was the content that stood out the most.
Structures shaped like letters X and C detected in the atmosphere intrigued scientists, and readers, in the month of August.
Floating between 80 and 643 kilometers above our heads, beneath the lowest regions of space where some communications satellites orbit, this zone in the upper atmosphere is also home to many unsolved puzzles — including an alphabet-shaped one that has the potential to frustrate everything what these radio signals do to keep life on our planet running smoothly.
The Starliner capsule returning to Earth was the most read topic in the editorial in September . The case drew a lot of attention during 2024 because of the astronauts who were trapped on the International Space Station, now for eight months.
The capsule returned without a crew because NASA considered it unsafe for the agents at that time.
In the following two months, October and November NASA continued to be in the spotlight. In the first, because of a mission that found clues of what made Mars uninhabitable, and the second because of a report from the American space agency that revealed its latest updates regarding extraterrestrials.
Node last month of the year the case of orcas that returned to wearing “salmon hats” in seas in the United States was what attracted the most attention.
NASA points out the best photos of the International Space Station in 2024
*Published by Pedro Jordão, Technology editor at the CNN in São Paulo
This content was originally published in From space travel to curious discoveries: the most read in technology in 2024 on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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