How Close Is Jupiter To Being A Star ? 

How Close Is Jupiter To Being A Star ? 

How close is Jupiter to being a star ? 

In an interesting article, Astronomy.com ponders how close is Jupiter to being a star, and could it maybe one day become on. 

When it comes to stars, Mass is all that matters (there’s a joke hidden in that statement, groan !!) 

A star becomes a star when the pressure at the centre caused by gravity is sufficient to fuse Hydrogen, and as it turns out, the mass of Jupiter is about 85 times less than the mass required to cause that kind of fusion to occur. 

So, unless Jupiter finds 85 times it’s mass and obtains it, it’s nowhere near the size needed to become a star, and is very unlikely to ever be so.

There is however a middle way, because it turns out that Hydrogen as H2 isn’t the first thing to begin fusing, H3 (deuterium) can begin to fuse at much lower pressures, around 13 times the mass of Jupiter. 

If this did happen, it would make Jupiter a brown dwarf, but again, 13 times it’s current total mass is unlikely to happen. 

https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2020/10/ask-astro-could-jupiter-ever-become-a-star

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Meaning: gender-nonconforming, [adj.]

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If Male Eivor Can Have His T*tties Out For No Reason So Can Female Eivor Ill Die By This
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If Male Eivor Can Have His T*tties Out For No Reason So Can Female Eivor Ill Die By This

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