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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft approached Ultima Thule, the farthest point in the universe, who photographed a probe sent off the Earth. This is reported on the website of the American Aerospace Agency.
"In the near future, New Horizons will go down in history! NASA's spacecraft is approaching the most distant object ever explored by the spacecraft: 4 billion kilometers from the Sun and about 1 billion kilometers from Pluto, "says the message.
Historic moment when the probe will photograph the under object named Ultima Thule, NASA will broadcast live on January 1, 2018. At the beginning of the broadcast, the title New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix) will be performed by the legendary guitarist Brian Meym, also a graduate in astrophysics and recently admitted to a team working with a probe
Ultima Thule was discovered in 2014 by the Hubble Space Telescope, named after the mythical distant northern island, mentioned in the literature and ancient and medieval cartography, and Ultima Thule is also defined as the "edge of the earth", the "last resort". [19659002] The New Horizons mission began in 2006. In 2007, the device passed Jupiter, eight years later, in 2015, the probe began to study Pluto and in 2019, it is expected to be in place. study the sites of the Kuiper Belt where Ultima Thule is located. In general, the mission is designed for 15 to 17 years.
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