On New Year's Eve, NASA discovers mysterious body secrets

NASA is preparing to discover the most known objects outside our solar system early on New Year's Eve.

The body that NASA plans to detect is known as the Altima Thuly, a mysterious planet 5 billion miles from Earth, on the edge of the solar system, the Washington Post reported.

The discovery will lead the New Horizons spacecraft, which will fly, after midnight on New Year's Day, to take close-ups and measure the body.

Scientists do not know about this body, to the limits of the hour, but the size and shape, after they relied on the size of the shadow, which threw the body when it passed next to one of the stars last summer.

"What does Altima reveal? No one knows, for me, that's the most exciting thing," said Dr. Alan Stern, senior researcher at the mission.

"Soon, the mysterious planet will be transformed from a point of light into a fully discovered world."

The New Horizons is the fifth man-made spacecraft to go into space beyond the outer planets of the solar system.

The phases of the operation, which coincide with New Year's celebrations, will be transferred to the social networks of NASA.