Eli5 why is Jupiter surface is gas if it’s so far from the Sun?
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Our solar system was once a massive cloud of dust and gas called a “nebula”. Slowly the gas and dust started to collide and collected. In the center it collected enough gas that the gravity from all that gas began to press it together. Eventually the pressure was enough that the gas began to undergo fusion which released light and heat. However that didn’t happen everywhere. The outermost planets formed from much less gas. So there wasn’t anywhere near enough gravity pulling it all in and starting a fusion reaction.
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