Brian May at New Horizons conference, December 2018. British rock musician and astrophysicist Brian May (born 1947) discussing the upcoming New Horizons flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule. May is a guitarist for the rock band Queen. In 2007 he earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College, London. Here, he is taking part in a discussion at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, USA. A model of the New Horizons spacecraft is in the background. The flyby of Arrokoth (2014 MU69) took place on 1 January 2019. Photographed on 31 December 2018.