New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern during the press conference following the flyby of Ultima Thule by the spacecraft at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory January 1, 2019 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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