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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The phase in the course of a solar or lunar eclipse during which the Sun is totally obscured or the Moon totally in the Earth’s shadow.
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