Kepler and its legacy

Kepler and its legacy
Kepler and its legacy An illustration representing the legacy of NASA's Kepler space telescope. After nine years in deep space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope ran out of fuel needed for further science operations in 2018. NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter