NASA: Icy Object Past Pluto Looks Like Reddish Snowman

This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019 shows images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft encountered it on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. NASA via AP

A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Jan. 2 of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity's most distant exploration of another world.