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NASA’s Kepler telescope discovered 2 exoplanets just before dying

NASA’s prolific Kepler space telescope, which shut its powerful eye nearly five years ago, continued finding exoplanets even while taking its final breaths.

A team of astrophysicists and citizen astronomers combing through the last chunk of data that Kepler sent home say they found two new worlds and a “candidate” planet closely orbiting three faint stars about 400 light-years from Earth. 

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