Our New Horizons spacecraft doesn’t zoom past its next target until New Year’s Day 2019, but the Kuiper Belt object, known as 2014 MU69, is already revealing surprises, as scientists sift through the more than 100,000 images gathered from observing the object’s quick pass in front of a star – an astronomical event known as an occultation – on June 3. Learn more: http://go.nasa.gov/2uqNwG1
