Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects our New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit after it flies by Pluto in July 2015.
This is an artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object, located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion miles from the Sun.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)