Behold the Closest Ever Image of a Kuiper Belt Object

Whoosh! Did you see that? It may look a bit scrappy, but the tiny white projectile at the center of the animation below--officially called 1994 JR1-- is a cosmic time capsule, brought to you by a piano-sized spacecraft over 3 billion miles away. You're looking at the closest picture yet of a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) by a factor of at least 15.