Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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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.

Video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Learn more: nasa.gov/kepler

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