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Call it the comeback of the year.

Last year, equipment failure caused NASA to deem its $600-million Kepler space telescope irreparable. But since then, astronomers and engineers devised an ingenious way to repurpose Kepler, whose mission has been to scour the cosmos in search of Earthlike planets.

And now, the planet-hunting probe not only has been reborn, but also has discovered a massive exoplanet some 180 light-years away.

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!!!!!Kepler1Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Kepler spacecraft hunting for planets in its second mission, K2.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/22/kepler-spacecraft-exoplanet-discovery_n_6358184.html

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