CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The NASA spacecraft that gave us close-ups of Pluto has set a record for the farthest photos ever taken.
In December – while 3.79 billion miles from Earth – the New Horizons spacecraft snapped a picture of a star cluster. The photo surpassed the “Pale Blue Dot” images of Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1.
The images for “Pale Blue Dot” – part of a composite – were taken 3.75 billion miles away.
Image: This December 2017 false-color image made available by NASA in February 2018 shows KBO (Kuiper Belt object) 2012 HZ84. This image is, for now, one of the farthest pictures from Earth ever captured by a spacecraft. I NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via Associated Press
