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- Jupiter isn't big enough to be a star.
- It doesn't give off light.
- It's not that hot. Only about 150 degrees below zero or something... Not even close to a star's temperature!
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 15y agoTo be called a star the body in question needs to producing energy by maintaining hydrogen-burning nuclear fusion reactions in its core.
Whether a body will do this or not depends on how massive (big) it is and there is a range of mass sizes from Jupiter sized planets - to brown dwarfs to main sequence stars.
Brown dwarfs occupy the mass range between that of large gas giant planets (like Jupiter) and the lowest mass stars
Currently there is some debate as to what criterion to use to define the separation between a brown dwarf from a giant planet at very low brown dwarf masses of around 13 Jupiter masses, and whether brown dwarfs are required to have experienced fusion at some point in their history.
In any event, brown dwarfs heavier than 13 Jupiter masses do fuse deuterium and those above 65 Jupiter masses also fuse lithium and when you exceed between 75 and 80 Jupiter masses you start fusing hydrogen and the body becomes a main sequence star.
Thus while Jupiter is too small to be experiencing any form of nuclear fusion, if it were just a bit larger (13 times larger) it would be a proto star and it is the nearest thing we have in our solar system to a near miss for a second sun.
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∙ 11y agoMore mass. A lot more mass. The minimum mass for a star is probably somewhere between 75 and 80 times the mass of Jupiter, so it wasn't exactly a "near miss."
At about 13 Jupiter masses, core temperatures and pressures can reach the point where it's possible to fuse deuterium; these are generally technically considered to be "sub-stellar objects" and not stars. Also, it doesn't take very long for all the deuterium to get used up.
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∙ 14y agoIt may have a lot of gas and a really high density. But it is no where near the temperature (caused via pressure//density) to ignite, the core of the sun is so dense and hot that it can force the nucleus of two atoms together.
In addition, Jupiter is made of less flammable gasses than the sun.
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∙ 14y agoMore Mass!
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Is it possible to make Jupiter a star if you applied more mass to it?
Jupiter has a mass of 0.001 Solar Masses. A star needs at least 0.1 Solar Masses, so if you multiplied Jupiter's mass by at least 100 it would become a star.
Is Jupiter a star?
NO ... Jupiter is a planet ... Jupiter only needed a couple hundred times it's current mass to become a star, but since it failed to achieve this task it is only a gas giant planet
Why didn't Jupiter become a star?
It has to do with heat and gravitational pull, in order to be considered a star it needs to be over a certain temperature.Jupiter is not a starIt is not giving off visible light, and the gases aren't hot enough for nuclear fusion to happen. A star is created when gases get squeezed so hard that nuclear fusion happens, and begins to become a protostar. Jupiter did not go through this process, the gases on Jupiter are being held by the sun's gravity and posibly a rocky core inside Jupiter. Jupiter was almost a star it just failed to accumulate enough mass during it's formation all it needed was a couple hundred times more mass to make the transition
Why do people call jupiter a near star?
Jupiter is called a near or failed star because it is not massive enough to be classified as a star. It would have 80 times more mass to be called a star.
Did the solar system almost become a binary star system?
No, the Solar System had a long way to go to become a binary star system. If Jupiter had been twice the mass, it's interior would have had enough pressure and high enough temperature to generate nuclear fusion, and it would have become a dwarf sun.Even so, Jupiter radiates more heat than it receives from the sun.
If Jupiter were to become a star then your solar system would become?
Part of a binary star system.
Can Jupiter the planet become a star?
No, it will always be a planet.
What are the release dates for Johnny Jupiter - 1953 How to Become a Movie Star 2-7?
Johnny Jupiter - 1953 How to Become a Movie Star 2-7 was released on: USA: 17 October 1953
Is Jupiter close to becoming a star?
Jupiter was going to become a star but when studied closely, scientists found that it was not massive enough to cause nuclear fusion in its core
Is it possible to make Jupiter a star if you applied more mass to it?
Jupiter has a mass of 0.001 Solar Masses. A star needs at least 0.1 Solar Masses, so if you multiplied Jupiter's mass by at least 100 it would become a star.
Is Jupiter a star?
NO ... Jupiter is a planet ... Jupiter only needed a couple hundred times it's current mass to become a star, but since it failed to achieve this task it is only a gas giant planet
Did Jupiter almost become a star when your solar system was forming?
78 percent of the material that did not go to the sun, went to jupiter.
Could a supernova on Jupiter cause the earth to be pushed off it axis?
Only a very, very few stars have mass enough to become supernova. Jupiter is a planet not a star. It is far to small to become a star, let alone a supernova.
Why is the Sun a star while Jupiter is not?
Although Jupiter is comprised of similar materials to the Sun - mainly hydrogen and helium, it does not have enough mass to heat the core of the planet to 10,000oK. This is a requirement for nuclear fusion to occur and without that, Jupiter is not a star, but a planet. For Jupiter to become a star, it would have to accumulate 75% more mass to achieve this.
Was Jupiter going to become another sun?
No. Many years ago this was considered a possibility. However we now know that Jupiter is far too small to become even the smallest star.
Is there a star in Jupiter?
No. Jupiter is a planet, so it does not have a star inside it.
When did Jupiter became a star?
Jupiter is a planet. It has never been a star and never will be a star.
