NASA Says Ultima Thule Actually Looks Like A Pancake And A Walnut

Images of the object nicknamed "Ultima Thule" photographed from the New Horizons spacecraft on January 1, 2019.

They had initially thought the object four billion miles from Earth looked like a snowman. The New Horizons spacecraft flew by it on New Year’s Day and new images give scientists a clearer picture.

(Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Getty Images)