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The Kepler space telescope has shown us our galaxy is teeming with planets — and other surprises

The Kepler space telescope has taught us there are so many planets out there, they outnumber even the stars. Here is a sample of these wondrous, weird and unexpected worlds (and other spectacular objects in space) that Kepler has spotted with its “eye” opened to the heavens.

Kepler has found that double sunsets really do exist.

Yes, Star Wars fans, the double sunset on Tatooine could really exist. Kepler discovered the first known planet around a double-star system, though Kepler-16b is probably a gas giant without a solid surface.

Kepler has gotten us closer to finding planets like Earth.

Nope. Kepler hasn’t found Earth 2.0, and that wasn’t the job it set out to do. But in its survey of hundreds of thousands of stars, Kepler found planets near in size to Earth orbiting at a distance where liquid water could pool on the surface. One of them, Kepler-62f, is about 40 percent bigger than Earth and is likely rocky. Is there life on any of them? We still have a lot more to learn.

This sizzling world is so hot iron would melt!

One of Kepler’s early discoveries was the small, scorched world of Kepler-10b. With a year that lasts less than an Earth day and density high enough to imply it’s probably made of iron and rock, this “lava world” gave us the first solid evidence of a rocky planet outside our solar system. 

If it’s not an alien megastructure, what is this oddly fluctuating star?

When Kepler detected the oddly fluctuating light from “Tabby’s Star,” the internet lit up with speculation of an alien megastructure. Astronomers have concluded it’s probably an orbiting dust cloud.  

Kepler caught this dead star cannibalizing its planet.

What happens when a solar system dies? Kepler discovered a white dwarf, the compact corpse of a star in the process of vaporizing a planet.

These Kepler planets are more than twice the age of our Sun!

The five small planets in Kepler-444 were born 11 billion years ago when our galaxy was in its youth. Imagine what these ancient planets look like after all that time?

Kepler found a supernova exploding at breakneck speed.

This premier planet hunter has also been watching stars explode. Kepler recorded a sped-up version of a supernova called a “fast-evolving luminescent transit” that reached its peak brightness at breakneck speed. It was caused by a star spewing out a dense shell of gas that lit up when hit with the shockwave from the blast. 

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Are you enough now? Could you have the most passionate conversation with your own mind without getting bored? In a sleepless night, could you have an unstoppable mind, lit in million colors and places yet unknown for the eyes? Could you be your own love?

20 SONG TAG

Favorite Song: Honestly I have too many favorite songs but my current favorite song o could be Car Radio by Twenty One Pilots and I think my favorite song of all times may be Smell Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

A Song You Hate: none

A Song That Makes You Sad: Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day 

A Song That Reminds You Of Someone: Gone, Gone, Gone by Phillip Phillips, always reminds me to my boyfriend Manny 😍

A Song That Makes You happy:  All The Small Things by Blink-182

Song That Reminds You Of A Specific Moment: Thinking out loud by Ed Sheeran because it was the song of our (Manny And I) first slow dance

Song Whose Lyrics You Know Perfectly: Blue Jeans by Lana Del Rey

Song That Makes You Dance: ANYTHING BRITNEY SPEARS

Song To Help You Sleep: Landslide by The Smashing Pumpkins

Song You Secretly Like: IDFWY by Big Sean

Song With Which You Identify Yourself: TOO MANY SONGS

A Song That You Used To Love And Now You Hate: None

A Song You Know How To Play: I Don’t play any instrument :(

A Song From Your Favorite Album: My favorite album is The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance and my favorite song from that album is Teenagers

A Song you Would Like To Sing In Public: Colors by Halsey

Song You Like To Drive to: I have an Indie Playlist for that

Song Of Your childhood: HollaBack Girl by Gwen Stefani, Fergalicious by Fergie, American Idiot by Green Day, Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz, Baby One More Time By Britney Spears And Of Course Burnin Up by The Jonas Brothers 

Song You Would Like To Sound At Your Wedding: I will follow You into the dark by Death Cab for cutie

Song You Would Like To Sound At Your Funeral: Pepsi / Coke Suicide by Elvis Depressedly

A Song That No One Expects You To Like: Not Sure about this one 

So this was my 20 Song tag, It was super hard for me doing this because I love too many songs… CL

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