PostGhost, a site that tracks deleted tweets for verified accounts stated that NASA was able to restore the account in 16 minutes.

— NASA Kepler and K2 (@NASAKepler) July 6, 2016 Within those 16 minutes, the hackers used the account to tweet really nasty pics which become a butt of joke on social media.

— cosmiczorro (@cosmiczorro) July 6, 2016

— jesse vega (@CosmicTropic) July 6, 2016

— Chris P (@Luckeytiger14) July 6, 2016

— Indy (@indylead) July 6, 2016 Kepler Twitter account belongs to NASA and normally tweets about new planetary findings. Kepler had recently tweeted about the newly discovered 9 planets in a habitable zone of stars where conditions could be right for liquid water, and potentially life.