Resumen de Bright fix to revive NASA planet hunter
The fallen king of planet hunters is looking on the sunny side. Despite the loss of its precision steering in May, NASA's Kepler space telescope may hunt planets again--by carefully balancing nudges from the sun that would otherwise put it ma spin. Since May, there have been various ideas for how to rehabilitate the ailing telescope, but at a meeting last week at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field CA the Kepler team said that it would ask NASA to fund this one, dubbed K2.
