Sun has a large gravitational force which keeps the solar system intact? Right?

My question is if sun has such a large gravitational force why can't it pull its own atoms of Hydrogen and Helium to get condensed like those of other planets and not form another planet?

Being bossy around other planets and setting its own particles and atoms free in gaseous form doesn't impress me to the least.

Sun is democratic to its own particles but authoritarian towards the others like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars etc?

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ButterRobot · 51-55, M

its because the gravitational collapse of the sun is balanced out by the internal pressure pushing out.

I think your anthropomorphising the solar system a bit too much lol

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ButterRobot · 51-55, M

@newjaninev2 ☝️ this.

TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M

@ButterRobot unable to keep its own mass/particles/atoms/molecules together? F= (G * M1* M2) / R²

sun has also got its core which could be considered M1, other particles as M2 and distance between them is dispropotionately lesser than the other planets.

ButterRobot · 51-55, M

@TheOrionbeltseeker Not really sure what you're getting at...

ArishMell · 70-79, M

Strange way of looking at it. in any case the material forming the plantes did not come from the Sun, but the Sun collected them from the surrounding Space.

in10RjFox · M

That's wrong theory. It's a force that keeps the entire solar system together, with sun as the hub. There can be numerous such solar systems in the universe and the entire solar system can be in an orbit.

There is still a lot more we don't know.

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Northwest · M

Not sure what you're asking here. The Sun, as all are stars, is a gas giant, mostly hydrogen. The entire solar system started forming at the same time, from the Solar Nebula.

TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M

@Northwest why can't sun attract its own particles and forms a solid ball like planets when it has such a large gravitational force?

Northwest · M

@TheOrionbeltseeker

Our sun was born out of the Solar Nebula, a massive hydrogen-based dust cloud. The trigger could be a star explosion in the vicinity (supernova), sending a massive shock wave causing parts of the Solar Nebula to compress/collapse. Another possibility is that over a million+ years, massive gravitational fields could have also caused parts of the nebula to compress/collapse.

At the core would have been the protostar that became the sun. At this point, it is in its [b]nascent[/b] phase.

Millions of years later, as the disc spins faster and faster under massive gravitational forces, it gets smaller and smaller, and hotter and hotter, until a point when it [b]ignites[/b] into a nuclear fusion reaction, causing it to enter its main sequence, the one we're in now.