At half past midnight tonight NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft (pictured) flies past Ultima Thule which, at four billion miles, is the most distant object a man-made object has seen. Because of the distance, it will take ten hours for the first images of Ultima Thule to reach Earth. However NASA is showing footage of events …
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