Meet Ultima AND Thule: First high-resolution images of most distant object ever visited

The Daily Mail ^ | 1/2/19 | Cheyenne MacDonald

[z3n]

frosty the thule man

[Steely Tom]

That's some far-away pixels.

For extra credit, calculate the diameter of the mirror needed on an Earth-based telescope in order to generate that level of resolution.

[Levy78]

“Aww man that’s so thule” - Mike Tyson.

[z3n]

Can we cheat and use an array?

[TomServo]

'It's really only the size of Washington D.C....'

And just as useless.

[Stingray51]

Perhaps we have found the home planet of Her Thighness?

[Larry Lucido]

21 miles? Not quite long enough to host a marathon.

[Cvengr]

But they come in threes. Where’s the third one? It’s a trap!

[sparklite2]

Calvin’s dad is going to be pissed.
Hobbes thinks it needs a tail.

[Larry Lucido]

Current inhabitants, including members of the Flat Ultima Thule Society, typically argue about whether Ultima Thule is flat or peanut-shaped.

[z3n]

Relax. I can fix this. My old man is a television repair man. He has the Ultima set of Thules

[Brilliant]

Looks like a giant dog poop.

[Diogenesis]

[Steely Tom]

Can we cheat and use an array?

OK, the virtual diameter.

By the way, I hear they're doing that for real at the Keck telescope, but only with IR. For now, anyway.

[kaehurowing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nho44lGVV8

[webheart]

I thought the government shutdown was going to keep the images from being received.

[spudville]

The staypuff marshmallow man

[Bringbackthedraft]

I see it, I see it, its Senior Wences’s Hand on the lower portion!

[bert]

——came together in a ‘gentle’ accretion process——

Accretion rules