Imagine sending out a $700m spacecraft only for it to send back a 21-mile galactic snowman 13 years later

Ultima Thule, more like ultimate fools!
I’m joking, this is actually pretty cool.

This is Ultima Thule, a 21-mile long rock 4.1 billion miles from Earth, the most distant object ever to be visited up close by humans.

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SW-User

i want to take it to dinner and ask it where it's been

AndrewtheAlu · M

@SW-User the same place you’ve been, around the sun for billions of years

kentex35 · 100+, M

@SW-User I think that's a kind suggestion. Don't listen to them.