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RIP Kepler

josip · 2018-11-19 13:49:02

Lights out time. https://newatlas.com/nasa-shuts-down-kepler/57275/

19-11-2018 2:49pm

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Lights out time.

https://newatlas.com/nasa-shuts-down-kepler/57275/

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#2 12-03-2019 9:32pm

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It may be lights out but its still going to be illuminating for quite some time to come.

Just posted a few days ago

Discovery Alert! Kepler's First Planet Candidate Confirmed, 10 Years Later

Details: Despite being the very first planet candidate discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, Kepler-1658b had a rocky road to confirmation. The initial estimate of the planet’s host star was........

What’s new: Kepler-1658b is one of the closest known planets orbiting a future version of our Sun, and revealed new constraints on the complex physical interactions that cause planets to spiral into their host stars. "Kepler-1658 is a perfect example of why a better understanding of host stars of exoplanets is so important," Chontos said. "It also tells us that there are many treasures left to be found in the Kepler data."

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