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.