What law explains why a collapsing cloud usually forms a protostellar disk around a protostar?

A) conservation of angular momentum
B) Kepler's third law
C) the universal law of gravitation
D) Wein's law


A) conservation of angular momentum

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At the end of the Paleozoic era, all

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