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The “contact binary” object Arrokoth (about 35 km long) in the distant Kuiper belt, beyond the orbit of Pluto. Arrokoth formed from two smaller icy bodies drawn together by their slight gravitational pull. Taken by the NASA New Horizons spacecraft in 2019.

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Roman Tkachenko

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