Mission Will Search For Earth-like Worlds
NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the
star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like
Earth. The new "first light" images show the mission's target patch
of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky
Way galaxy. One image shows millions of stars in Kepler's full
field of view, while two others zoom in on portions of the larger
region.