NASA Spaceship Captures Stunning Images Of The Kuiper Belt, 3.79 Billion Miles Away From Earth

Remember the blurry picture of the Earth called the 'Pale Blue Dot', that was a muse for Carl Sagan's most famous monologue? Well, this new picture snapped by Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, has surpassed the distance.

The image is the furthest photo away from earth ever taken from outer-space.

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NASA released the pictures, captured at the end of 2017 by the New Horizons spacecraft on Thursday. The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager which is one of the seven instruments aboard the New Horizons spacecraft that reached Pluto in 2015.

These pictures show two objects in the Kuiper Belt, the so-called twilight zone on the fringes of our solar system.

The camera photographed three subjects in December: a star group nicknamed the Wishing Well, as well as two objects closer to home that are part of the band of rocks, ice clumps and dwarf planets at the edge of our solar system called the Kuiper belt.

During its extended mission in the Kuiper Belt, which began in 2017, New Horizons is aiming to observe at least two-dozen other KBOs, dwarf planets and ¡°Centaurs,¡± former KBOs in unstable orbits that cross the orbits of the giant planets.

New Horizon broke a record that had stood for nearly three decades.

The Voyager 1 was 3.75 billion miles from earth, on Valentine's Day 1990, it turned its camera toward earth called the Pale Blue Dot.

Pale Blue Dot from ORDER Productions on Vimeo.

Astronomer Carl Sagan, who pitched the photo concept, famously said in his monologue: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."