英语新闻听写 开普勒太空望远镜退役

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According to Geek.com, the Kepler space telescope has been retired¹.

据“Geek.com”报道，开普勒太空望远镜已经退役。

NASA officials retired the telescope on Oct. 30th, after a 9-and-a-half year flight.

历经9年半的飞行后，10月30日，美国国家航空航天局退役了该望远镜。

The Kepler is NASA's first planet-hunter telescope, which discovered thousands of planets during its mission.

开普勒是美国国家航空航天局的第一架行星猎手的望远镜，它在执行任务期间发现了数千颗行星。

But the Kepler recently ran out of fuel, allowing it to drift out of orbit and into the cosmos².

但最近开普勒太空望远镜的燃料耗尽，任由它漂移出轨道、进入茫茫宇宙。 

The Kepler was launched in 2009, with a mission of assessing over one hundred thousand stars in the Cygnus constellation³.

开普勒太空望远镜于2009年发射升空，其任务是对天鹅座中10万多颗的恒星进行观测。

By 2014, the Kepler had surveyed more than 500,000 stars, and had discovered thousands of planets in orbit.

截止2014年，开普勒太空望远镜观测了50多万颗恒星，并在轨道上发现了数千颗行星。