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NASA’s Kepler makes first exoplanet find of new mission

Submit on Friday, December 19th, 2014 22:55

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft makes a comeback with the discovery of the first exoplanet found using its new mission — K2. The discovery was made when astronomers and engineers devised an ingenious way to repurpose Kepler for the K2 mission and continue its search of the cosmos for other worlds.

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