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But that research only looked at Newtonian gravity, which is the simple formulation of gravity that explains the motion of projectiles on Earth and the orbits of most of the planets around the sun. But Newtonian gravity is not always there, especially for closing orbits around damp stars. In our own solar system, Mercury's orbit slowly rotates or processes around the sun in a way that Newtonian gravity can't explain. And it was a major accomplishment of Einstein's theory of general relativity, which used gravity as a result of deformation in space-time and was able to explain Mercury's orbit to Strapi.