Webb image archive
Arrakoth (New Horizons)
Though not on Webb’s target list, Arrokoth is probably exemplary of a lot of objects in the Kuiper Belt. The farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, it is composed of two,...
- Date
- Dec 13, 2023
- Observatory
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Credit
- NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI
- Archive ID
- 4768
Though not on Webb’s target list, Arrokoth is probably exemplary of a lot of objects in the Kuiper Belt. The farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, it is composed of two, joined planetesimals. Arrokoth was photographed by the New Horizons spacecraft in December 2018 and January 2019.
Credits
Image
NASA, APL, SwRI, Roman Tkachenko