Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Sharper New Horizons photos reveal Ultima Thule as a reddish space "snowman"

The original image of Ultima Thule (left) taken by New Horizons, along with a sharper, enhanced ...

Right on cue, more images have returned to Earth from New Horizons, bringing Ultima Thule into sharper focus. Where yesterday's images showed just a few blurry pixels that looked like a bowling pin, the new photos reveal the rocky world to be more of a "snowman" shape, confirming its identity as a contact binary consisting of two large spheres.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2F4aOt2

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