4 Billion Miles From The Sun, A Spacecraft Sends Early Pictures Of A Tiny Planet
The first images of the object, just a few pixels wide, arrived Tuesday morning. Higher-resolution photographs will be sent back to the earth in the coming weeks.
by Ian Stewart
Jan 01, 2019
2 minutes
It's known as Ultima Thule — "beyond the known world" — but on Tuesday a tiny planet got a little less mysterious.
NASA's New Horizons probe successfully conducted the farthest-ever fly-by of an object in space when it sped past Ultima Thule in the first minutes of 2019.
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