This is past Pluto..

It is a region at the outer edge of our solar system.  Mostly it is made up of icy bits and The New Horizons spacecraft has just taken a pic in the closest range ever of a belt object.  Here is a quick briefing on this mysterious region and the latest from this mission:

The New Horizons spacecraft is already 209,437,000 km (130,138,000 miles)past Pluto (as of Dec. 4, 2015), making it 5,226,950,000 km (3,247,880,000 miles) from Earth. So, yes, it’s way out there. Recently, it took the closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object, setting a record by a factor of at least 15, according to NASA. The team says this image demonstrates the spacecraft’s ability to observe numerous similar bodies over the next several years.

Let’s find out more about the Kuiper Belt in the video on page 2

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