GROUP PICTURE:The Kepler Mission

This is an artist's concept of the Kepler FOV towards the Cygnus/Lyra border. Hopes are high that the next Kepler Data Release may very well contain the very first planet just like our's. Go Kepler! ;-)

IMAGE BY: Jon Lomberg/NASA/AMES Research Center

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