After nine years in deep space collecting data—NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations.  For those who have never heard about Kepler, it was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission. Kepler highlighted thousands of planets peppered throughout the cosmos. Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the universe.

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