What Will Happen to NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft?

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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope found thousands of planets outside our solar system. Now that NASA has ended science operations, the spacecraft will remain forever in orbit around the Sun, periodically passing Earth but never coming closer than a million miles to our planet.

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Learn more: http://www.nasa.gov/kepler

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