There is another planet
has been discovered by Reborn Kepler spacecraft, according to Digital
Marketing Agency reported.
As NASA confirmed on
Thursday, “the NASA spacecraft, which is designed to seek out other worlds but
hit a snag when parts failed last year, found another planet thanks to some
nifty repurposing by the space agency and its partners”.
“The recently found world
is named HIP 116454b and has a diameter 2.5 times the size of Earth's”, said
NASA in a press release.
One more thing, HIP
116454b orbits its star, which is in the direction of the constellation Pisces,
in nine days and is too close to support life as we know it, the agency added.
It's 180 light-years away.
“Last summer, the
possibility of a scientifically productive mission for Kepler after its
reaction wheel failure in its extended mission was not part of the
conversation,” said Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics division director, in a
statement.
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