Why is the Solar System Flat?

Why it was recommended

I like this video from minutephysics to get an intuitive sense for it

Recommendationigemnace · Original2023-06

What it covers

A minutephysics explainer on why the planets orbit in a flat plane. It shows how conserved angular momentum flattens a collapsing cloud of matter into a disk. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

minutephysics

Length

3 min 12 sec

Year

2014

More in this topic

• TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
• The Solar Gravitational Lens will Map Exoplanets. Seriously.
• Powers of Ten™ (1977)
• 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009
• A new way to visualize General Relativity
• Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot