Photos: Delta 4-Heavy launch gallery

Living up to promises that the view from New Horizons will only get better, the Pluto-bound spacecraft has again bested itself with a dazzling color view of Pluto and Charon released Thursday.

Scientists using the powerful Hubble Space Telescopes have identified three tiny objects at the frontier of the solar system that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft could visit after making an historic flyby of Pluto next summer.

Watch highlights from Orion’s Dec. 5 launch aboard a Delta 4-Heavy rocket as compiled for broadcast on NASA TV.