Kepler mission – It’s full of stars!
Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
Here’s what you have been waiting for, NASA Kepler’s full field of view – an expansive star-rich patch of sky in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra stretching across 100 square degrees, or the equivalent of two side-by-side dips of the Big Dipper.
And now let us stay with Jon Jenkins, Kepler’s Co-Investigator:
beyond the cradle 