Kepler telescope without fuel, mission stops

moffett field - NASA has turned off the Kepler space telescope because the fuel in the famous satellite has been exhausted. This brings an end to a mission that started in March 2009. Since then, the telescope has discovered approximately 2600 planets outside our solar system, according to NASA Tuesday.

The Kepler telescope was the first with which NASA searched for new planets. The device has surpassed the wildest expectations, according to the space agency. The telescope will increasingly move away from the earth in its current orbit.

The telescope was named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler who researched space in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.