astrophysicists believe that our sun started out as a large cloud of hydrogen gas. gravitational attraction between the gas molecules caused it to collapse. we can approximate both the initial cloud of gas and the sun to be spheres of uniform density. the mass of the initial cloud of gas and the sun are the same. the radius of the sun is much smaller than the radius of the initial cloud of gas. the sun now spins once every 24.5 days. the angular momentum of the initial gas cloud was