New Horizons’ Ultima Thule Flyby a Success

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Astrophysicist and musician Brian May, left, and PSI Senior Scientist Henry Throop are members of the New Horizons science team and were present at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab for the flyby of Ultima Thule (below), the most distant object every visited by spacecraft.

Credits: Brian May (above) and NASA/APL/SWRI (below).