Farthest photos ever taken, from nearly 4 billion miles away

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) " The NASA spacecraft that gave us close-ups of Pluto has set a record for the farthest photos ever taken.In December " while 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers) from Earth " the New Horizons spacecraft snapped a picture of a star cluster. The photo surpassed the "Pale Blue Dot" images of Earth taken in 1990 by NASA's Voyager 1.The images for "Pale Blue Dot" " part of a composite " were taken 3.75 billion miles (6.06 billion kilometers) away. [...]


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