Kepler’s first law of motion describes what feature of a planet’s orbit?(1 point)

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the distance to the sun
the distance to the sun

the distance from the aphelion to the perihelion
the distance from the aphelion to the perihelion

the shape
the shape

the time required for each orbit

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Kepler’s first law of motion describes the shape of a planet’s orbit. Specifically, it states that the orbits of planets are elliptical, with the Sun at one of the foci of the ellipse.