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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.
