After finding thousands of planets, NASA's Kepler mission ends

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated 4:45 PM ET, Tue October 30, 2018

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Artists such as Tim Pyle and Robert Hurt create renderings of exoplanets and other things in the universe we may never be able to otherwise see. Sometimes, the reality of the data they're working with aligns with scenes from the "Star Wars" films, such as Pyle's rendering of the Kepler-16 binary star system that creates a double sunset like the one on Luke Skywalker's home world, Tatooine. <br /><br />Click through to see more of their work.