The most remote place ever visited...Ultima-Thule! (Patreon)

 Normally distant small objects don’t capture the imagination that much. You have zero chance of seeing any detail on them- hell even the Hubble telescope cant see these things as anything more than dots of light.... then came Ultima-Thule!!

New Horizons was originally designed to just look at the Pluto system (which it did in spectacular form), then proceeded to hammer out of the solar system. However amazing, about 10 years after the launch of the probe a new object (Ultima-Thule) was discovered nearly in its flightpath. It was realized that New Horizons could make a close flyby of this distant object. What it found is probably the most pristine and unchanged relic from the very dawn of the solar system… an almost perfectly persevered contact binary!