This April 2009 image from zooms into a small portion of the planet-hunting Kepler's full field of view - an expansive patch of sky in the Milky Way galaxy. At center is a star with a known 'hot Jupiter' planet, named 'TrES-2,' zipping closely around it every 2.5 days. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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