NASA's New Horizons spacecraft signals from most distant object ever visited

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft signals from most distant object ever visited

But it will take two years for the pictures to get to Earth.

A NASA spacecraft on New Year's Day flew by an object farther than any spacecraft has before — 4 billion miles from Earth.

NASA received a signal from the New Horizons spacecraft Tuesday morning that it had reached a small space object known as Ultima Thule 10 hours earlier.

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The full scope of observations made by New Horizons will take nearly two years to beam back to Earth.



The spacecraft provided the first close-up images of Pluto about 3 1/2 years ago when it traveled past the dwarf planet.