Admittedly I’m asking with a lot of ignorance, so I’m not sure my question entirely makes sense. Gas giants in our solar system are just globs of gas, but all clumped up. However, various space photos, like the “Pillars of Creation” seem to be just floating blobs of gas that don’t seem to combine into a single spherical entity, planet or otherwise. Why does some float around and some clump into a single sphere? Or are the blobs floating around simply in transit from some stellar event and haven’t had time for its miniscule gravity to pull itself into ball?
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The pillars of creation have tons and tons of stars forming (and formed) within them. The whole formation is about 5 light-years tall/long
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