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The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

7 November 2018

On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe
planet orbit

Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern

28 June 2017

Data from the Kepler space telescope show that exoplanets tend to be similar in size to their neighbours and regularly spaced, no matter the size of their star

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