NASA's New Horizons probe approaches the farthest point of the solar system

NASA's probe is getting closer to the solar / NASA photo system

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has approached the Ultima Thule, the the farthest point of the general system, which photographed a probe sent from the Earth. 9659005] Read also NASA telescopes photographed the brightest comet in 2018

According to the website of the US Aerospace Agency, Radio Liberty

"In a Near future, the NASA spacecraft will enter the history! the farthest object ever studied by the spacecraft – 4 billion kilometers from the Sun and about 1 billion miles from Pluto ", indicates the message.

Historic moment when the probe will photograph an object called Ultima Thule, NASA broadcast live 1 if Year 2018. At the beginning of the show, New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix), the legendary guitarist Queen Bryan Mey, also a graduate in astrophysics, was recently part of a team working with a probe.

Ultima Thule discovered in 2014 with a Hubble Space Telescope The object was named after the mythical distant northern island, mentioned in ancient and medieval literature and cartography. The Ultima Thule statement is also defined as the "edge of the earth", the "last resort".

Mission New Horizons started in 2006. In 2007, the device passed Jupiter, eight years later, in 2015, the probe began to study Pluto. For 2019, for the New Horizons, it is planned to study the objects of the Kuiper Belt, where lies Ultima Thule. In general, the mission is designed for 15 to 17 year olds.