NASA New Horizons spacecraft spots Ultima Thule target for the first time

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has spotted Ultima Thule, the nickname given to its target in the Kuiper Belt, for the first time. The spacecraft isn’t scheduled to arrive until New Year’s 2019, but has snapped images of the object four months ahead of time, giving humanity a fuzzy, bright glimpse of the destination. The dim Ultima Thule was detected by …