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NASA resurrects planet-hunting Kepler, replaces broken parts with magical Sun power
2013-11-27 21:30:21| Extremetech
Over the past year, we've told the sad story of NASA's Kepler space observatory, and how the failure of two vital components have resulted in the sad and premature retirement of humanity's best tool for spotting Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe. Just when all hope seemed lost, though, NASA has approved an ingenious plan to bring Kepler back online -- a novel, never-before-seen technique that uses the Sun's constant bombarding of photons upon Kepler's solar panels to keep the telescope pointed in the right direction.
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