Why are are astronomical objects typically in the form of a disc?

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Saturn and its rings, our solar system, the Milky Way – Why are they (and the bodies orbiting them) in such a neatly flat shape and not more akin to how electrons are often depicted orbit an atom in all directions?

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Without external gravity the matter attracts to each other until it comes to rest at an equidistance, which is a sphere.

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