NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish 'snowman'

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.Ultima Thule, as the small, icy object has been dubbed, was found to consist of two fused-together spheres, one of them three times bigger than the other, extending about 20 miles across.NASA's New Horizons, the spacecraft that sent back pictures of Pluto three-and-a-half years ago, swep