The closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object – 1994 JR1

The closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object – 1994 JR1

There is a region of space filled with comets beyond the gas giant Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt. This expanse holds trillions of objects – remnants of the early Solar System – and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently took the closest images of one of…