NASA spacecraft set to explore furthest object ever visited

NASA is set to beam back images and data of an asteroid more than six billion kilometres away from Earth. The New Horizon’s spacecraft will reach its closest point to Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day, a journey which will have taken 13 years to reach. Once the spacecraft flies by the asteroid, it will become the furthest object ever visited by a human-made object. Image: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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