From the press release:
Museum Hosts January 2 ‘Encounter Party’ following New Horizons fly-by of Kuiper Belt’s Ultima Thule
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
Illustration of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 – nicknamed “Ultima Thule” – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto. Set for New Year’s 2019, New Horizons’ exploration of Ultima will be the farthest space probe flyby in history.
Credit: Courtesy NASA/JHUAPL/SwR
Note: Representative image at left is often cropped for display purposes. Downloaded high-resolution images are not cropped.
