Cross your eyes and break out the 3D glasses! 😎 Our New Horizons team has new stereo views of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule – the target of our New Horizons spacecraft’s historic New Year’s 2019 flyby, four billion miles from Earth – and the images are as cool and captivating as they are scientifically valuable. The 3D effects come from pairing or combining images taken at slightly different viewing angles, creating a “binocular” effect, just as the slight separation of our eyes allows us to see three-dimensionally. Using images like this, we can better understand the extraordinary shape of the farthest object ever explored Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/National Optical Astronomy Observatory #nasa #space #spacecraft #3d #kuiperbelt #flyby #newhorizons #ultimathule #picoftheday