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On August 16, 2018, the New Horizons spacecraft took an image of the star field where its target 2014 MU69 was predicted to be (left). On the right is the processed image showing the object. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
UPDATE: Get ready for humanity's most distant encounter: 2014 MU69!
Phil Plait
Jan 1, 2019

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The icy object 2014 MU69 may be a binary, or even a contact binary, a double-lobed worldlet.
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Goodnight, Pluto
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