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A) They don't; the stars form from the disks.
B) Centrifugal force pushes gas outward from the spinning gas cloud.
C) Intense winds from nearby massive stars flatten the gas cloud.
D) Collisions between rotating gas particles flatten the gas cloud along the axis of rotation.


D

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