Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| Latitude |
Angular distance north or south of the equator in a spherical coordinate system. In celestial equatorial coordinates, the counterpart of latitude is declination.
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