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where liquid water could occur on its surface. That’s one of the basic prerequisites for life as we know it on Earth."EPIC” stands for “Ecliptic Planet Input Catalog”, which was a list of targets that the Kepler Space Telescope's K2 mission was supposed to observe. However, EPIC 201497682 is also known in other star catalogs as UCAC4 453-051784, 2MASS J11154478+0029171, and Gaia DR2 3810098271767907840.
This illustration depicts NASA's exoplanet hunter, the Kepler space telescope. The agency announced on Oct. 30, 2018, that Kepler has run out of fuel and is being retired within its current and safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries.The researchers used data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope as a test bed for their new algorithm.
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