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Look up at the Sun as it glides across the bright blue sky, or watch the Moon’s nightly voyage. On dark, moonless nights you also might notice a bright planet traveling against the stars.
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Lang, K. (2013). Gravity. In: Essential Astrophysics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35963-7_3
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