quarantine 'em

This is not a before-and-after, they aren't even pictures of the same objecthttps://twitter.com/ridingrobots/status/1080590665216548864 …

The first picture is Ultima Thule, a classical Kuiper belt object which has never visited, and will never visit, the inner solar system, the second picture is the entirely unrelated comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

I'm sorry qntm but this is a joke, it's speculated (no less by the scientists on the NH team themselves) that contact binaries are a common form of comet nucleus, and that 67P is a very degraded example. Ultima Thule is, however, a pristine example.