Why Planets and Stars are Round in Shape - Why Planets are Sphere in Shape - Everyday Science

In today's video we will know why all planets and stars are round in shape. Friends, as you know, large objects like planets and stars are round in shape, but small objects like mountains, asteroids, trees, rocks, houses etc. are of different shapes. Do you know what is the reason behind this?
What is the force that forces large objects to be spherical.
So friends Gravity is the force that compels huge objects like planets and stars to take spherical shape.
Now you may ask, if this force is so powerful, then why is it not effective on small objects and why does it bring large objects only in spherical form instead of other shapes. So let's understand this-
Here the fact is, more massive objects have stronger gravity.
Because of Huge mass planets and stars have very strong gravity. This strong Gravitational force pulls it towards its center equally from all sides. This forces it to take round shape.
But How it works, let's understand it with the help of a simple example.
Suppose there is a tall building on our planet Earth but its foundation is not strong enough to hold its weight. So the building will collapse. The gravity of planet earth will pull the building down towards its centre. So in this way you can understand how gravity of massive objects like planets and stars pulls everything towards its center to transform itself into a round shape. If there is any irregularity in the shape, the strong gravitational force acting uniformly towards the centre of the planet will try to squeeze it into a spherical shape.
But in case of objects like mountains, asteroids, humans, buildings etc. that are not very massive, the gravity is not strong enough to squeeze it into the spherical shape. So they retain their original shape.
So now you know why all massive objects are spherical in shape.

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[CristinaF]

wow im completely in AWE on how theres NOT millions of views on this video, this was one of my biggest questions, why is everything (almost everything) PERFECTLY round??? almost like someone drew them??
well, here is the answer
THANK YOU !!!!

[ak.s]

Thanks for the video, my 4 year old student asked me this question, n i dint know wat to answer that.... She asked me why planets are not square, rectangular or Pentagon in shape. Thanks atleast i can say this to her now🙏

[RiderMH]

i don't know sir you were remembered about me or not.. we were met you in a train Punjab Mail express.. you was with your mother in law...

[edelweisslandscape]

so that is why men attracted to girl things that has 2 sphere shape. its gravitation so strong

[robinkumar]

What about a galaxy...it is not a sphere or something...is it's gravity is working horizontally 😂

[davbaka]

I have a great telescope and I'm able to see the planets as well as large objects far far away and the objects far away aren't Round at All. What he's presenting isn't true. But he has the right and freedom to deceive. Thanks

[blairakana]

That’s this guys speculation and assumption on why planets are round. Scientist can only guess because they don’t believe in God.

[marwand.a.z]

Is this your opinion or a scientific opinion? ... For example, the planet Mars. Gravity can control the dust, but it cannot distribute huge comets equally on the planet.. We all know that the planet Earth without water appears different from the rest of the planets.