Despite the government shutdown, NASA was live streaming on New Year’s Day as the New Horizons space craft made a flyby of the most distant object humanity has ever explored – an icy, red, snowman-shaped object known as 2014 MU69. You may have heard it referred to by its nickname Ultima Thule.

First Glimpse Of The Farthest Object Ever Visited By A Spacecraft

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First Glimpse Of The Farthest Object Ever Visited By A Spacecraft

First Glimpse Of The Farthest Object Ever Visited By A Spacecraft