Re: Star formation

John Brockbank wrote:
Sorry if this is an FAQ, but it5 has long made me wonder and I have never seen an explanation.
The Earth massive as it is, is too slight to have hydrogen in the atmosphere. I think that is because the speed of the molecules exceeds, just about, the escape velocity. Given that, how did stars form from hydrogen?


Surface gravity at the sun 27 G?(260 /s/s)
And that is for a yellow dwarf.
Even Jupiter/Saturn/neptune hold onto their
hydrogen pretty well.
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