NASA's Kepler, a mission tasked with scouring a section of the universe in search of Earth-like planets, used its high-powered telescope to take these negative images of space.
Each panel was recorded from separate sensors and contains millions of stars. Kepler's instrument--a photometer--is a light meter that can simultaneously measure the brightness variations of more than 100,000 stars with a precision of about 20 parts per million.
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