The Kepler Space Telescope is dead
This afternoon, NASA officially bid farewell to the Kepler Space Telescope, a pioneering spacecraft that helped discover thousands of planets beyond our Solar System. After years of service that extended long beyond its initial mission, the spacecraft finally ran out of fuel.
Kepler was a marvel of engineering. It detected planets by looking for their transits, which are the small dips in the light of a star as a planet passed between that star and Earth.“Like trying to detect a flea craw
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