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Stars form when cold clouds of gas condense under their own gravitational attraction. However, any angular momentum the cloud has, due to its slow rotation, will cause the rotation to speed up as the cloud contracts, just like an ice-skater pulling in their arms, due to conservation of angular momentum. There may come a point when the material is spinning too fast to accrete on the central star and it may spin away. However, friction can cause some material to gain angular momentum and fly away whilst most of the material loses angular momentum and falls inwards. However, this only works if the material approaches the star more-or-less at an equatorial angle. Material trying to come in from the poles will be unable to lose sufficient angular momentum and is spun away. As the star forms, you have an equatorial accretion disc of in-falling matter accompanied by polar jets of outgoing matter. Any material left-over in the equatorial disc after accretion stops will be able to form planets.
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