NASA spacecraft makes historic shift beyond the farthest body of the solar system News – World News | DW



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The probe of the US National Aeronautical Agency (NASA) made its appearance Tuesday, January 1, near the furthest part of the solar system and stolen near the body called Ultima Thule, announced at the AFP news agency

. photos of the asteroid Ultima Thule (or "Edge of the World"). According to observations of astronomers, this space object or group of objects, of a length of about 30 kilometers, is located 6.4 billion kilometers from the Earth. This region of the solar system, located in the orbit of Neptune, is called the Kuiper Belt.

"The New Horizons probe spills the farthest from the probe, approaching Ultima Thule, a former cold asteroid from the Kuiper belt," NASA reported in a microblogging on Twitter. NASA scientists reportedly received the first Earth-to-Earth signal on 1 January at 1445 GMT.

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