"Risky" close-ups of Ultima Thule are New Horizons' finest ever work

After almost two months, the New Horizons probe has sent back the clearest images of Ultima Thule to date – which are, most likely, the clearest we'll ever get. The new images were snapped just minutes before the spacecraft made its closest pass of the Kuiper Belt object on January 1, in what the science team calls a risky "stretch goal" of the project.

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Category: Space

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• Astronomy
• Johns Hopkins University
• Kuiper Belt
• NASA
• New Horizons
• Solar System

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