In a distant part of our solar system over 4 billion miles away nicknamed “The Twilight Zone” and 30 minutes into 2019 a space probe called New Horizons will snap pictures of the farthest destination explored in history, a tiny icy world called Ultima Thule. It will take over 6 hours for the signals to return to earth.
New Horizons, launched in 2006, also explored Pluto and its moons in 2015 just one year after the 4 1/2 billion year old 20 mile long object known as Ultima Thule was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. The name Thule derives from the medieval word for the most distant, northernmost place on earth.
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