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English: This composite image of the primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) – featured on the cover of the May 17 issue of the journal Science – was compiled from data obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the object on Jan. 1, 2019. The image combines enhanced color data (close to what the human eye would see) with detailed high-resolution panchromatic pictures.
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Source Image provided from two sources: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-team-publishes-first-kuiper-belt-flyby-science-results and
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190516
Direct image: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=606
Author NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko.
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current 02:42, 20 February 2022 Thumbnail for version as of 02:42, 20 February 20221,302 × 1,860 (978 KB)Viva NicolásSlightly better colour and quality
04:51, 6 June 2019 Thumbnail for version as of 04:51, 6 June 2019985 × 1,407 (1.12 MB)Yarnalgo File:UltimaThule CA06 color 20190516.png, rotated 90° to match source image using CropTool with precise mode.
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