Ultima Thule (pronounced TOO-lee). “This is truly the most primitive object ever encountered by a spacecraft,” said Hal Weaver, project scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

The Sculptor of Ultima Thule’ is an exhibition celebrating the 110th anniversary of Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala’s birth.

The Romans took it a step further by calling it Ultima Thule, which further exaggerated its remoteness. There is a lot to ...

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