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Best Law for Last?

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Lunation 1265

Best Law for Last?

Space & Astronomy News

  • Is the reign of ΛCDM coming to an end? New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument show signs that cosmological constant might not be so constant. Really exciting to think how much more we are learning about the universe!
  • The eight-day mission that became nine months has concluded for astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore (but no, they weren't stranded), as Crew-9 splashed down safely.
  • ESA's Gaia mission has mapped over two billions stars and objects in the Milky Way, but all good things must end, and its time has come. Launched in 2013, the spacecraft made it well past its planned 5-year lifetime, but now it has been moved into a retirement orbit and deactivated.

Learn a Little

Ten years after his first two laws, Kepler published what would come to be known as the Third Law of Planetary Motion. The best one??

ICYMI: The Dance of Planets

We got really into orbital dynamics over on YouTube recently!

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