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NASA announced that Kepler's space telescope, which is looking for an exoplanet, is running out of fuel
This is stated on the agency's official website.
The fuel is so small that NASA has decided to transfer Kepler to hibernation. The next few weeks to save him.
When he is in hibernation, the telescope will not make scientific observations. The device will have to "wait" until August 2 and then transfer the data collected over the last 51 days.
Focusing on the sky in the direction of the constellation of Cancer – he observed the same area in 2015. The new data obtained by the telescope should help scientists confirm the existence of an exoplanet seen during the first study of the region, and could also find new candidates.
The device will "wake up" early August. Hopefully, Kepler will resume surveillance on August 6, working on the latest fuel.
Kepler launched in 2009. In 2013, the device failed, but after a year, the experts of NASA were able to resume their work. The telescope detected 2,650 confirmed exoplanets. Even if Kepler finishes his work in the near future, he will have a lot of data to collect that the scientist will only have to analyze.
And Marshall Opportunity has not been in contact for several weeks.
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