originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions · 10 months agoif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions · 10 months agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareApollo42linkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoThe moons would almost certainly fall into Jupiter or be thrown from its orbit if itsuddenly gained enough mass to become a star.
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI assumed in this scenario that orbits would be left unchanged aside from orbital velocity - if we can magic Jupiter much bigger, we can magic the orbits too :P
minus-squareApollo42linkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI mean if we’re talking magic now, then all bets are off haha
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoNot sure how else you would increase Jupiter’s mass that much :P
minus-squareApollo42linkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoWe feed it everything else in the system except for the sun and hope it is appeased for another cycle :)
The moons would almost certainly fall into Jupiter or be thrown from its orbit if itsuddenly gained enough mass to become a star.
I assumed in this scenario that orbits would be left unchanged aside from orbital velocity - if we can magic Jupiter much bigger, we can magic the orbits too :P
I mean if we’re talking magic now, then all bets are off haha
Not sure how else you would increase Jupiter’s mass that much :P
We feed it everything else in the system except for the sun and hope it is appeased for another cycle :)