Brian May, lead guitarist of the rock band Queen and astrophysicist, right, poses with New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute as they wait for confirmation of the flyby of Ultima Thule by the New Horizon spacecraft at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory December 31, 2018 in Laurel, Maryland. The flyby by the space probe occurred km (4bn miles) away, making it the most distant ever exploration of an object in our Solar System.

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