why are the planets and the sun spheres?

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Was looking at a NASA image of the sun and thought, huh, why wouldn’t it just be a chaotic blob? Pls help

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Think how water acts in space – it wants to stick together. If you let it float, it forms into a ball.

Other material likes to do the same thing. At the size of a planet the math is different, but the way it behaves is basically the same.

Here’s Chris Hadfield doing a neat experiment showing how water likes to stick to itself (and his hands) in space. https://youtu.be/o8TssbmY-GM

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