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NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch — NASA Astrobiology

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Key
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Authors
NASA
Issued
2018-10-31
Type
webpage
Container
NASA Astrobiology
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Claims

  1. NASA retired the Kepler space telescope in October 2018 after it ran out of fuel; it left a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries, and its data indicate more planets than stars in the sky.
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