If space stuff is interesting to you, you’ll find this pretty cool! An image of the most distant object EVER explored by humans has been captured! The object, known as Ultima Thule aka the “space snowman”, is small, icy and rotates. Photos were taken New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and then stitched together to make the video.
The New Horizons spacecraft, which launched almost exactly 13 years ago, whizzed by this bad boy at a distance from Earth of 4 billion miles! Scientists figure Ultima Thule was once two separate objects now joined together, and say seeing the comet is like exploring the dawn of the solar system!
SO … COOL!