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The US space agency NASA has published on its website the latest images taken by the Kepler Space Telescope shortly before the exhaustion of its fuel and stopped connecting to the Earth.
Pictures of Kepler
According to the site engadget "The last photos date from September 25, 2018, nine years after being in space, where more than 2,600 scientists were discovered outside the solar system and proved that the planets of our galaxy are more than just stars "said the agency.
The telescope was stopped after the end of its fuel and transferred to a secure orbit, and lost contact with the ground for a final and ended its service, which lasted 9 years.
NASA points out that the information collected by Kepler is very numerous and will be studied and analyzed by experts over several years.
The Kepler telescope was launched in space in 2009 to observe millions of stars near our galaxy. But he stopped working in 2013 and, a year later, NASA experts managed to get him back to work.
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