Can Jupiter Ever Become a Star?

Hello wonderful person this is Anton and in today's video we're going to try to turn our beautiful Jupiter into a star can we do it let's find out welcome to What Da Math so actually one of the most common questions that I receive on the channel and on Facebook is to basically try to turn Jupiter into a star similar to our Sun that you see in the back there but then we can't we can't for many reasons and one of those reasons is because I think people that often asked this question don't realize how many Jupiter's we need to combine together to create a star so let's actually start by answering that question how many of these do you need to combine into one large object to turn this into even the smallest star we're going to create a new simulation and in this simulation we're just going to start placing Jupiter's right next to each other so they actually start colliding so let's put a bunch this is five this is ten and let's wait for all of them to combine into one large mega Jupiter if they start escaping we can go into power and disable out all velocities basically once you hold on velocities everything will combine into its one large object so this is a Jupiter that's supposed to be about ten masses of original Jupiter it's unfortunately not as big I think because we lost a lot of the stuff to do those collisions but we're just going to cheat and make it ten masses of Jupiter so this is a standards together all right how big is it compared to the original Jupiter not that much bigger in terms of at least a volume so volume wise there are still relatively similar okay let's hold all velocities again and please ten more Jupiter's around the mass of Jupiter making this a double massive Jupiter so hopefully this will now have 20 masses of Jupiter but it doesn't it once again because of the collisions all of this material gets dispersed into space we might be able to recapture it by doing this let's see if it actually happens so this is now supposed to be about 20 masses of Jupiter and still just the gas giants it's still not a star and if I actually accelerate this you can see that all of this material falls back into this massive object increasing its mass quite dramatically making it a little bit warmer than before but still not as hot as it should be we're going to make this 20 masses and there you go we're going to wait for it to cool down as well it's sort of spinning on the wrong axis but that's okay and there you go so this is our super massive 20 masses of Jupiter Jupiter okay we're not done yet this is still not even close to being a star let's please I guess 20 more yeah let's do that so here we go 20 more Jupiter's sudden explosions really really fast a lot faster than I actually was hoping for but that's okay and hold all the LA cities combined all the material into one and hopefully get okay it's 38 masses we're going to go for 40 masses of Jupiter very very fast with spinning objects very very interestingly looking but once again still not a star even after 40 Jupiter's were still not in a star formation mode let's put 20 more making the 60 this time we're going to make this a little bit more dramatic we're going to actually decrease time and just watch all these super massive Jupiter's collide with this ultra mass of Jupiter and possibly cause some blocks of the game as well yeah they're not really doing so well and they're actually colliding with one another as well so it's kind of interesting but if I hold all the AH settees they'll always start coming toward us and eventually hopefully we'll combine into one massive object so let's wait for this to happen and by the end we should have an object that's about 60 masses of Jupiter now it is going to be a star well what's let's see take a guess what do you think do you think it will be a star I am pretty sure it's not going to be a star and you're going to find out why in a second and there is that final suction of all the matter including the last object that we still haven't collided with and at the end we'll get a total mass of 60 Jupiter's now at this point this is now classified as a brown dwarf it's still not a star it's a little bit more massive than a gas giant but it does not have a nuclear reaction on the inside so it's not technically a star star you can see decreased in size because of its sudden increase in mass and it's now even possibly smaller and volume than the actual Jupiter so to compare this to to a beautiful Jupiter you can see that it's actually smaller in terms of size but not in terms of mass it's a lot more dense that's why it's volume is so much lower okay so let's put 10 more make it a 70 there is a 70 Jupiter's and once they combine into one which will hopefully happen once all of these bugs are resolved here I think something got stuck in on the inside but anyway once they all combined we should have a total mass of close to 70 Jupiter's and this might initiate the nuclear reaction if everything goes right we might be able to create a star and looks like we lost some mass again we need to try to regain that mass by reabsorbing it by holding all velocities again and at the end this will hopefully become a star of some sort so we're currently at 53 55 60 message of Jupiter it's increasing dramatically and will this become a star we're very very close to 70 masses of Jupiter now we're observing more and more matter as it sort of orbits around us and at this point maybe just maybe nothing still nothing we're over 70 masses of Jupiter and we're still not a star so this really kind of shows you how much more massive our Jupiter would have to be before it actually turned into a star okay let's go to 75 we're going to start placing them one by one here it goes one it's only been eaten away by this object in a very interesting manner and I think it's actually losing a lot of the mass - I don't know what's happening to that mass but it's definitely disappearing somewhere and this is 75 masses in total once everything is absorbed we should have some kind of a indication whether this is still a brown dwarf or a star right now it's kind of hard to tell and here we go this is 75 and we're still a brown dwarf we may need to go to even in the higher mass because this is still a brown dwarf as you can see it's shrinking in size because its density is increasing quite dramatically and it's basically a very very very compact gas giant like object that is technically known as a brown dwarf hmm we might need to get 5 more going but what's interesting though is that this object is actually now a lot hotter than a typical gas jet would be so its temperature is about 1400 degrees Celsius and it seems to be stuck at that temperature so in other words it it actually radiates quite a lot of heat and you could potentially even have habitable planets around it or in this case I guess it would be habitable moons okay we might need to place a few more Jupiter's for it to turn into an actual star we're going to start with one or actually let's put two at a time so this is 77 and this will be 80 so let's see if we can now maybe officially turn this into a star by placing 80 Jupiter's into one and so here goes nothing this is now going to be a very very massive object once it combines all of the mass into one and any second now let's see what happens to this it's still just a brown dwarf 60 70 75 and still absorbing some of the masses it's sort of jumping out because of all the collisions and there we go there is that star at 78 masses of Jupiter now that's just a a Red Dwarf it's a star that is very very very small in comparison to our Sun very similar to the recently discovered Trappist one it's also very active star so it's very unlikely that would find any habitable planets around it but it's not that much bigger than Jupiter but what this should have showed you is how difficult it is actually to turn a gas giant into a start you need 78 Jupiter's four for us to have another star in our solar system so if I actually go back to our solar system and look at our Jupiter I need to increase its mass 78 times for it to actually turn into a star this would be quite impossible for two reasons one is that a total mass outside of our Sun basically if I were to collect all the materials outside of our Sun no planets asteroids ice comets all of the moons everything together it wouldn't even give us to Jupiter's in total to get 78 we need to get a lot of stuff from somewhere maybe it's 79 is it 79 yes it's 79 we need to get a lot of stuff somewhere else from the outside of solar system where that's going to happen we don't really know but essentially it's quite impossible to turn Jupiter into another star but it'll be fun to have one though and we would then become a binary solar system and if I look at Earth now its temperature will actually start increasing quite dramatically because now we have two stars on opposite sides of our planet one variant that's right there somewhere that's illuminating our dark side and one a regular star the Sun so this also means that with time the temperature on planet Earth will actually become much hotter than it currently is and there is the red dwarf Jupiter that's illuminating us from the outside I'm going to run this for maybe a few months just to see how temperature changes and just to see what else happens in our solar system as the supermassive giant red dwarf star Jupiter starts causing all kinds of trouble here and interesting with the temperature on our planet has actually changed that much but the orbits are changing quite dramatically and that's probably because Jupiter is slowly Jupiter the star that is is slowly stretching all of the orbits of inner planets making them a lot more elliptical including of course our planet Earth which is now going to have a slightly different orbit from before and anyway so that's all I wanted to show you in this video I wanted to experiment with Jupiter and turn it into a star explain to you why it's actually kind of impossible in practically speaking and also give you an idea what would happen if Jupiter did become a star so this binary system now has two stars orbiting around one another anyway come back tomorrow to learn something else interesting something else new something you didn't know before and potentially subscribe which is to have it share this video with your friends or someone who enjoys learning through video games and most importantly let me know if there are any other hypothetical scenarios you'd like me to explore or something else you would like me to make in universe a box I'll see you guys tomorrow space out and as always bye-bye let's accelerate it's a little bit faster and see what kind of trouble starts occurring on our own in our solar system you

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Keywords: anton petrov, education, #education, space, astronomy, universe, whatdamath, what da math, science, game based learning, jupiter, universe sandbox, universe sandbox 2, jupiter as star, star jupiter, can jupiter become a star, stellar jupiter, jupiter gaining mass, how much mass does jupiter, how much mass to become a star, will jupiter become a star, star jupiter mass, massive jupiter, making jupiter more massive

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Length: 13min 1sec (781 seconds)

Published: Fri May 26 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/yuk_dum_boo_bum]

A couple of monoliths should do the trick.

[u/screenwriterjohn]

I'm on it!

[u/Up2Here]

Do you suspect it's planning to do this?