FILE- This Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, file image made available by NASA shows the Kuiper belt object Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles past Pluto, enc

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The remote residence snowman visited by NASA closing month has a flat — now not spherical — in the abet of.

Contemporary photos from the Contemporary Horizons spacecraft supply a recent perspective on the cramped cosmic body 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. Scientists convey the 2-lobed object, nicknamed Ultima Thule, is de facto flatter on the backside than first and most important thought. Photos released tiring closing week — taken rapidly after closest come on Contemporary Year’s Day — provide a top level notion of the aspect now not illuminated by the solar.

When seen from the front, Ultima Thule aloof resembles a two-ball snowman. Nonetheless from the aspect , the snowman looks squashed, form of affection a lemon and pie caught together, end to total.

Ultima Thule is some of the some distance away world ever explored.