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On Monday, December 31, it was learned that NASA's New Horizons space probes were getting closer to the Ultima Thule – the periphery of the solar system. It should be noted that the US aerospace agency already has the first images of the probe.
This is stated in the publication of NASA's official group New Horizons on the social network Twitter.
"In the near future, New Horizons will go down in history! NASA is getting closer to the most distant object ever explored by the spacecraft: 4 billion kilometers from the Sun and about 1 billion kilometers from Pluto, "says the report.
The historic moment when the probe will photograph an object called Ultima Thule, at NASA, will be broadcast live on January 1, 2018. At the beginning of the show, New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix), the legendary Queen guitarist Brian Mey, also a graduate in astrophysics and recently with a team working with a probe, presents the composition.
Specifies that Ultima Thule was discovered in 2014 for using the Hubble Space Telescope. The object was named after the mythical distant northern island, mentioned in ancient and medieval literature and cartography. The term Ultima Thule is also defined as "the edge of the earth" or "the last limit".
Remember that a scientist from the University of Durham , in the UK, Jacob Kegerry has spoken of a real disaster going on The Solar System That 's happened a few billion years ago, but its effects are still felt.
According to the Znay.u portal, Ilon Mask said that the first inhabitant of Mars would be an artificial superintellect. According to the general manager of SpaceX, the probability that it reaches 30% in his calculations
In addition, the Knowledge.ua portal writes that the team of physicists had proposed a new theory on how the world had been created before the Big Bang. In their opinion, our universe is united with its mirror copy, where time is receding.
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