NASA’s Kepler discovers more than 100 planets during K2 mission

Q.  NASA’s revamped planet hunting Kepler spacecraft has discovered how many confirmed planets orbiting other stars as per the K2 mission?
- Published on 11 Jan 16

a. 1000
b. 5000
c. 500
d. 100

ANSWER: 100
 
NASA’s revamped planet hunting Kepler spacecraft has found more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars.The campaign looking at different parts of the sky have located close to 100 validated planets. Kepler has discovered more than 60,000 stars and located 7000 transit like signals at the time of the first 5 80 day observation campaigns.

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