An image from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">NASA's</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Mission" class="extiw" title="w:Kepler Mission">Kepler mission</a> showing the telescope's full field of view on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=2009-04-08&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="2009-04-08 (page does not exist)">2009-04-08</a> which is one day after the dust cover on Kepler was blown away. Kepler will search 100,000 stars over 3.5 years looking for planets using 42 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device" class="extiw" title="w:Charge-coupled device">charge-coupled devices</a> (CCDs) with a total resolution of 95 megapixels. Celestial north is to the left.
NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
2009-04-08
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