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Update setup instructions for Python

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This updates the setup instructions for Python workshops. [A recent blog post provides more context for this change](https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/03/lesson-setup-instructions-task-force-recommendations/). Specifically, this PR updates the instructions to reflect that we recommend Miniforge...

tobyhodges

### How could the content be improved? Add gd1.py (https://github.com/adrn/gala/blob/main/gala/coordinates/gd1.py) and reflex.py (https://github.com/adrn/gala/blob/main/gala/coordinates/reflex.py) to student download to remove gala dependency Gala tries to compile somethings in C which breaks on...

abostroem

### What is the problem? Pandas now issues a warning that only the filename will be allowed without a keyword in Pandas 3.0. We need to specify the key with...

abostroem

### What is the problem? Broken link to ADQL cookbook in the [Query Language section](https://datacarpentry.github.io/astronomy-python/01-query.html#query-language) ### Location of problem (optional) _No response_

maneesha

### How could the content be improved? Add a reference to the [`mamba` package manager](https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba) to `./learners/setup.md` as an alternative to `conda` and potentially replace all instances of the default...

jauy123