nasa宣布重大发现 NASAs Kepler Space Telescope Retired, but Planet Discoveries Keep Coming

This image taken on Sept. 25, 2018 by NASA’s space is the final of ’s full field of view the of fuel ended the work of this - .

NASA’s space may be , but the to rack up for this - . rang in the new year with new , a of an size, as well as a super Earth and a -sized world a Sun-like star.

In the , the has its final of the ’s full field of view the of fuel ended its work. NASA the on Oct. 30, 2018, to a safe orbit.

The “last light” image taken on Sept. 25 the final page of the final ’s of data . It the of nine and a half years when the first its eye to the skies and its “first light” image. went on to more than 2,600 our solar and that our has even more than stars.

The gaps in the and along the top of the image are the of part in the . Due to the , the did not the rest of the .

For this final field of view, ’s last in its , the was in the of the . It a of the -1 with its seven rocky , at least three of them to be . was the GJ 9827 , a star that hosts a that is an for up with other to study an of a world.

, ’s field of view also with NASA’s new -, the , or TESS, the to and their of the data from the two . ’s have been off and it is no ,its data will be mined for many years to come.

Here are of some of ’s last as these stars and dim. In to the took of its full field of view, the ’s also at 30- . These for hours after the “last light” image data . The data is to the in of the stars, for as they the faces of their stars and for other of . The of the stars in the are due to by near fuel .

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