Photos of two small moons open the door to a new vastness

The fuzzy images of moons that NASA New Horizons satellite are sending back to Earth are a slim crack in a door opening on a vastness humankind has not seen before.

And the door will slowly swing open week by week.

Traveling at 1,000,000 miles per day, one of the fastest space vehicles ever made is extending human sight to Pluto and beyond to spy out details the Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t been able to see.

But there’s more.

Pluto is the door to the Kuiper Belt, a collection of rough celestial bodies that orbit around the sun like the asteroid belt, but it’s interminably larger. It is known for producing comets, such as Halley’s Comet, which orbits the sun about every 75 years.

New Horizon could get quiet after passing Pluto, but if NASA approves, the satellite will go to an object or two in that belt.

CNN