There are new images of the most distant object we have ever visited and they are shocking NASA scientists. The space rock called 2014 MU69, and nicknamed Ultima Thule, is located 4 billion miles from Earth.

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The pictures of the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), seen as a surprise gift, were taken on New Year's Day by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

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