Kepler Finds 100 New Exoplanets

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Artist's impression of Kepler with a distant solar system. NASA

Everyone can get a second chance, even broken space telescopes. Kepler, the planet hunting telescope, suffered a critical malfunction to its stabilizing system in May 2013. It seemed it was the end for the mission, but thanks to the clever men and women at mission control, they managed to reconfigure the probe and keep the search for exoplanets going.