originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...message-squaremessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareif jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star...originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square19linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareApollo42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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
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