This image from NASA's Kepler mission shows the telescope's full field of view.
Kepler is more than 10,700,000 kilometers (about 6,600,00 miles) from Earth and continues its planned drift-away orbit.
Kepler is nearing 10 million kilometers from Earth, and will pass that mark on June 12.
Kepler remains safe and stable in its "drift-away" heliocentric orbit.
This image from NASA's Kepler mission shows the telescope's full field of view -- an expansive star-rich patch of sky in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra stretching across 100 square degrees.
This image zooms into a small portion of Kepler's full field of view -- an expansive, 100-square-degree patch of sky in our Milky Way galaxy.
This artist's animation illustrates how the dust cover on NASA's Kepler telescope will be ejected.
Kepler is on its way to space to search for Earth-like planets.
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