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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The same reason the rocks on Earth stay connected and don’t float into space. Gas has mass, and mass has gravity. A lot of mass together exerts a lot of gravity.

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