Credit: Artwork: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest
Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI); Science: NASA, ESA, and STScI
NEW HORIZONS: KUIPER BELT OBJECT (ARTWORK)
This is an artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object -- a city-sized icy relic left over from the birth of our
solar system. The Sun, more than 4.1 billion miles (6.7 billion kilometers) away, shines as a bright star embedded in the glow of the zodiacal dust cloud. Jupiter and Neptune are visible as orange and blue "stars" to the right of the Sun.