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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Gravity is pretty strong for these large planets. Every bit of gas is pulling on every other bit of gas, this has the net effect of pulling everything towards the middle of the object. The shape where all the mass is closest to the centre is a sphere. So the gas forms a sphere.
For small objects like pluto or comets, they are very irregular in shape due to very little gravity.
A larger objects, the force is great enough to shift rocks and gases and turn planets and stars into perfect spheres.
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