Scientists have discovered a distant planet similar to Jupiter using data taken from the retired Keplerspacetelescope in 2016.
Specht used newly discovered algorithms to search through the Kepler files for suitable candidates.
Kepler launched in 2009 with the goal of discovering Earth-sized planets orbiting distant stars, and not gas giants.
Yet before it was finally retired in 2018, Kepler managed to examine over 530,000 stars anddiscover 2,327 exoplanets.
This is not the first discovery made after the retirement of the telescope.
But even those scientists themselves declined to call it a planet, saying only that it fit the model.
