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Scientists position their telescope beside a small church in the Karoo desert in South Africa on the morning of June 3, 2017. They were one of at least 54 observing teams with dozens of telescopes dispatched across two continents, positioned to catch a rare, two-second glimpse of a small, distant Kuiper Belt object passing in front of a star. Teams were hoping to capture the fleeting starlit shadow of 2014 MU69, which the New Horizons spacecraft will explore in a flyby on New Year’s Day 2019. (Photo by Henry Throop/NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
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