Water Worlds, Tatooines, and Earth Twins: Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope's Greatest Hits http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

NASA's Kepler space telescope has suffered a hardware malfunction threatening to end its life, a potentially sad finale to an important mission. This gallery of its greatest hits ran in November 2012, when the telescope completed its initial mission and prepared for a four-year extension. We are again offering this look at its best work, along with a few updated exoplanets it found in the meantime.



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