As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and discovered many Earth-sized and smaller planets, some of them in the habitable zone where liquid water, and therefore life as we know it, could exist.
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