PHOTOS: These Images Were Captured Nearly 3.8 Billion Miles From Earth

These false-color images of Kuiper Belt objects now occupy a place in history: Never before have images been captured as far from Earth as these.

The distance marks a record: the farthest from Earth an image has been taken. Before NASA’s New Horizons probe caught these glimpses in December, the 1990 “Pale Blue Dot” image had held the record.

(Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)