What’s Next for the Kepler Planet Hunter

NASA’s exoplanet hunter may be permanently disabled, but researchers say the best results are yet to come

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What’s Next for the Kepler Planet Hunter
New World: An artist’s rendition shows Kepler-62f, a “super-Earth” in the habitable zone of a star 1200 light-years from Earth.
Image: Ames/JPL-Caltech/NASA

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