Snowman in space, or how NASA published pictures of the furthest away from Earth object in space yet

Snowman in space, or how NASA published pictures of the furthest away from Earth object in space yet

American space probe New Horizons has recently sent NASA the pictures of a very particular space object. Dubbed Ultima Thule, it is the most distant space body found yet. The rather atypical thing, which official name is a ”contact binary”, has also been given a nickname ”Snowman” for its shape. It is placed 6.5 billion kilometers away from Earth, in a so-called Kuiper belt, which is said to be a collection of rocks and planetoids remaining after the forming of the Solar System.

Of course, the above picture may have been fabricated, NASA is really a group of researchers journeying to the center of the Earth and the moonlanding was filmed in a studio. You never know.

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