behold the closest ever image of a kuiper belt object /

Published at 2015-12-05 23:00:00

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Whoosh! Did you see that? It may stare a bit scrappy,but the tiny white projectile at the middle of the animation below—officially called 1994 JR1— is a cosmic time capsule, brought to you by a piano-sized spacecraft over 3 billion miles away. You’re looking at the closest picture yet of a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) by a factor of at least 15.
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Source: gawker.com

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