. >> wlook forward to it. victor cha and jenny town, thank you so much for being here. >> tha you. >> nawaz: nasa headed for the real outer limits, four billion miles from earth, on a mission that inspired a slightly unusuaa new year's celon. jeffrey brown launches our stor with tport. >> i don't know about all of you but i'm liking this 2019 thing so far. >> brown: it was a spectacular way to bring in the new year, ai nasa scis confirmed that the "new horizons" spacecraft had successfully reached the farthest object ever explored in space: a small icy world called ultima thule. "new horizons" arrived three- and-a half years after it had flown past pluto and 13 yearsth aftecraft, the size of a mini van, rst left earth. ultima thule is a billion miles farther than pluto, located in what's callethe kuiper belt, the outer edge of our solar system. it's small, just 21 miles across, and, as seen in the first dimentary images, seems to be shaped like a bowling pin. >> now the ige that i'm about to show you is the be