Top 10 amazing recent space discoveries by NASA and other space agencies. Join us as we look at these discoveries about our bizarre universe

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China put a lander down on the Moon’s Farside on January 3rd, 2019. It was the first soft-landing ever on the mostly unseen face of our nearest neighbor. China prepared for this project by having placed a relay satellite at the Earth-Moon L2 point. They launched it in May of 2018, into a "halo" orbit so it can always see the Farside of the Moon and the Earth at the same time. They can communicate in almost real-time with their lander and its rover. The mission is equipped to study geophysics of the new, unvisited landing site at the Von Kármán crater, in the South Pole's Aitken Basin. Also a bio-capsule was looking at the growth of insects, plant seeds, and yeast to see if they could create a balanced ecosystem producing oxygen, carbon dioxide, and processing waste.

In December of 2019, we finally got our evidence that planets can continue to exist after the red giant phase. While studying a white dwarf, which is the phase of a star after the red giant phase, they found emission lines for "exotic" gases, such as hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen, which are odd for a white dwarf. These gases are the same sort found in the atmosphere of our own ice giant planets, Neptune and Uranus.
It appears that an ice giant planet, with a year of only ten days to orbit the white dwarf, is having its atmosphere shredded away at a rate of 3,300 tons per second. This results in a 10 million kilometer disk of gas around the white dwarf star. This white dwarf is remarkably hot, 28,000º C at its surface, literally boiling the planet away into the ether.

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