NASA's picture of Ultima Thule triggers hilarious memes on Twitter; check here

New Delhi: NASA’s New Horizons craft which became the first to journey to Ultima Thule - the most distant and possibly oldest space object ever explored. The photos that were beamed by the craft as it flew by Utima Thule on January 1 have been share by NASA for the public. The images show Thule as an object consisting of two connected spheres, resembling a reddish snowman like structure. Based on fuzzy images obtained earlier, the scientists had said that Ultima Thule resembled a bowling pin, however, the new images - taken from as close as 27,000 kilometres on approach - revealed Ultima Thule as resembling a snowman. Now, the flyby is a historic achievement, but the netizens could not help poking fun at the shape of the object. Hours after the image was shared by NASA on the micro-blogging website Twitter, a series of jokes and memes erupted. Some users commented that it resembled chicken nugget, while to some it appeared like pancakes stuck together and for others it was a pitta bread. Check here:

Im sorry but Thats a @McDonalds chicken nugget

— ☯Rich-tea (@__Rich_Tea__) January 2, 2019

It's legit yo. pic.twitter.com/8ATBWJPIME

— Jimmy Tigert (@Kz6fittycent) January 3, 2019

Our @NASANewHorizons scientists just released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored! Congratulations to the New Horizons team and @JHUAPL! https://t.co/sWHgykXmpu pic.twitter.com/9Geqcj7dq9

— Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) January 2, 2019

Space Cheeto!

— LarryAdair (@LarryAdair) January 2, 2019

Pitta bread

— Aaron Abberley (@AaronAbberley) January 2, 2019

Pretty sure i just saw that in ma cereal

— Ian Ayers (@IanAyers) January 2, 2019

Scamorza pic.twitter.com/pc00TAMSFk

— Ito (@hit_aloud) January 3, 2019

Lack of snow in Maryland here but this looks like a snowman cookie to me. What do you think?

— Mo Jo (@mo2ski) January 2, 2019

It's the middle of winter and we send a probe how many billions of miles just to photograph a snowman?!

— John Oh (@johnoliveroh) January 2, 2019

Mum always said space rocks were made of cheese pic.twitter.com/VR0QNKSajm

— Dr Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) January 3, 2019

Huevos Alienígenas. pic.twitter.com/9gzf3D1BwQ

— sᴘɪᴅᴇʀ-ᴍᴀɴ. (@Zp1dey) January 2, 2019

yay for space snowman pic.twitter.com/qrrC9jvZAC

— Potatos Potatopulous (@ArmchairPotato) January 2, 2019

pic.twitter.com/wfcYJEiUrS

— Ethan Atwell (@EthanAtwell) January 2, 2019