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Ultima Thule -- an uncharted world over 4 billion miles away -- is coming into view. On Monday, planetary scientists released a fuzzy image of Ultima Thule, snapped the day prior by the New ...

On Jan. 1, 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make history with the first close flyby of a Kuiper Belt object: Ultima Thule. See photos of Ultima Thule and the historic encounter here!

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transcript NASA scientists revealed images of Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from the sun. Pictures of the so-called contact binary were captured by the New Horizons mission on Jan. 1.

When the New Horizons team decided to snap an image in the direction the spacecraft is headed, they didn’t necessarily expect to actually see Ultima Thule from this far away. Nevertheless ...