# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu1oJ_KnHmG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11734678-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-03-10T18:31:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

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

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nasa, picoftheday, 3d, space, flyby, spacecraft, newhorizons, ultimathule, kuiperbelt

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