Why are stars and planets spherical (ball shaped)? When stars and planets were made, they began as round balls in space.

Gravity pulls evenly towards the center. Over time this rounds out a planet into a sphere.

Gravity pulls harder on parts that stick out. This extra gravity makes planets more round.

Remember soh-cah-toasoh: cah: toa: now, looking at the picture we can see that we have an angle, the hypotenuse and want to find the value of the adjacent side to the angle. so we use cah to find the adjacent angle. plug in what we have: we need to solve for x now so we get it by itself on one side: plug this into your calculator and you'll find that: