originalucifer to No Stupid Questions • 5 months agoif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...message-square26fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...originalucifer to No Stupid Questions • 5 months agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Apollo42link8•5 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 months agoNot sure how else you would increase Jupiter’s mass that much :P
minus-square@Apollo42link2•5 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 :)