Meet Ultima Thule: Dark as potting soil and shaped like a snowman, first images reveal
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 - 20:20
in Astronomy & Space
It’s rust-colored and lumpy. It’s about as dark as potting soil. And shaped like a snowman. Two days after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hurtled past a small, frozen world 4.5 billion miles from Earth, Ultima Thule is finally coming into focus. “What we are seeing is the first contact binary ever...