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Why do all planets in our solar system go around the sun in the same way?

Answer 1

Solar system including the Sun formed from a huge cloud of gas and dust we call nebula.

When it began to condense, the angular momentum was created and all nebula began to spin. The planets, sun and other objects continue to move in the same direction due to this angular momentum.

Answer 2
Piper Hoffman
The solar nebula, a spinning disk of gas and dust that gave rise to a flat, disk-shaped system, is the source from which all planets in our solar system formed, and its initial rotation determined the direction of the planets' orbits around the sun.
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