NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together since the solar system’s birth
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto in 2015 and continued onward, photographing the icy body Arrokoth in January 2019 about four billion miles from the Sun. Described as the most distant object ever visited, Arrokoth appears shaped like two snowballs gently joined since the solar system's early formation.
New Horizons found Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, revealing a flattened contact binary whose intact lobes preserve evidence of a gentle early merger. The post NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together since the solar system’s birth appeared first on Space Daily .
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