New Horizons spacecraft, which made a flyby of Pluto in July 2015, took images of two Kuiper Belt objects, the farthest images from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft.
These are falso-color images of 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85 are the closest-ever pictures of Kuiper Belt objects.
New Horizons is the fifth spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system at about 700,000 miles a day. It made a course correction back in December to set it on its way to visit dwarf planet MU69 on January 1, 2019.
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