Look at the latest picture taken by the Kepler space telescope. After that it was turned off. Forever! ?

Initially, Kepler's mission to search for exoplanets was supposed to last 3.5 years, but the telescope worked in orbit

The Sun is 9 years, 7 months and 23 days old.NASA had to shut down the telescope because it ran out of fuel.

The first shot with Kepler was received on April 82009 The Kepler camera consisted of 42 charge-coupled devices (CCD), each with a resolution of 1024 by 2,200 pixels - this is precisely the structure of the structure of the published image.

In the published image, you can see that some of the matrices have stopped working and transmitting a signal, so there are black squares in their places.

In total, Kepler has discovered more than 2,600 exoplanets during its existence .

In late September, NASA astronomers used Kepler data to find an unusual superplanet near theA land very similar to Mr. Spock's homeland from the Star Trek series, the planet Vulcan.

In June, based on telescope data, scientists fromUniversity of California at Riverside and the University of South Queensland have discovered more than a hundred giant planets, near which there can be satellites suitable for life.