Kepler Telescope's Last Discovery: Trio of Exoplanets
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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope discovered two mini-Neptune exoplanets and one candidate planet in its final dataset just before running out of fuel and shutting down in late 2018. The planets were found by a team of astrophysicists and citizen scientists who combed through the last chunk of data that Kepler sent home. The two confirmed planets, K2-416 b and K2-417 b, are smaller than Neptune and are likely uninhabitable due to their hot, tenuous atmospheres. The third candidate planet has not been confirmed yet.
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