Eli5: Saturn is made of gas, and lots of it. Why does the gas stays “connected” and doesn’t just float into space?

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Eli5: Saturn is made of gas, and lots of it. Why does the gas stays “connected” and doesn’t just float into space?

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Because it has a gravitational orbit that attracts things to its core.

Likewise we could ask why the oxygen or atmosphere on earth, a gas, doesn’t just float away.

It’s literally attracted to the planet.

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