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Gravity simulator

A lightweight Newtonian gravity playground for intuition about how planets and galaxies interact.

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Sun–Earth (two-body orbit)

Normalized demo: circular orbit in dimensionless units (not to scale).

Interpretation

This is a simplified Newtonian gravity demo. It is excellent for intuition (orbits, binding, flybys), but real planetary dynamics and galaxy evolution include many more effects (non-spherical mass, perturbations, relativistic corrections, gas dynamics, feedback, etc.).