No, Jupiter cannot ignite and become a star. It does not have enough mass to sustain nuclear fusion like a star.
Jupiter did not become a star because it lacks the mass needed to sustain nuclear fusion in its core. Stars need a certain amount of mass to generate enough pressure and heat for nuclear fusion to occur, and Jupiter's mass is not sufficient for this process to take place.
No, Jupiter is not a failed sun. It is a gas giant planet that did not have enough mass to ignite and sustain nuclear fusion like a star.
No, Jupiter is not a failed star. It is a gas giant planet made mostly of hydrogen and helium, while stars are made mostly of hydrogen and undergo nuclear fusion to produce energy. Jupiter does not have enough mass to sustain nuclear fusion and become a star.
No, Jupiter was never a star in the past. Jupiter is a planet in our solar system, not a star. Stars are massive balls of gas that produce their own light and heat through nuclear fusion, while planets like Jupiter do not have enough mass to sustain nuclear fusion and instead reflect light from the sun.
For a star to form, a cloud of gas and dust in space must collapse under its own gravity, causing the material to heat up and ignite nuclear fusion, creating a star.
Jupiter did not become a star because it lacks the mass needed to sustain nuclear fusion in its core. Stars need a certain amount of mass to generate enough pressure and heat for nuclear fusion to occur, and Jupiter's mass is not sufficient for this process to take place.
No, Jupiter does not have enough mass to become a star. It is a gas giant planet made primarily of hydrogen and helium, but it would need at least 80 times its current mass to ignite nuclear fusion and become a star like our Sun.
A binerary star system
No, Jupiter is not a failed sun. It is a gas giant planet that did not have enough mass to ignite and sustain nuclear fusion like a star.
Only a very, very few stars have mass enough to become supernova. Jupiter is a planet not a star. It is far to small to become a star, let alone a supernova.
Part of a binary star system.
Jupiter. However it would have to be about 10 times bigger, at least.
No, Jupiter does not have enough mass to become a star like the Sun. For Jupiter to become a star, it would need to have at least 80 times more mass. Jupiter is a gas giant planet and would need to be significantly larger to sustain nuclear fusion and become a star.
No, it will always be a planet.
A nebula may condense and ignite to become a star, conversely a star may explode and form a nebula.
Good question. It is unlikely, though, as there simply is not enough matter in Saturn to have enough gravitational pull to produce enough heat at the centre to induce thermonuclear reactions to form a star - even a small one. Even Jupiter, which is much more massive, is nowhere near massive enough. This idea has been talked about for years. Arthur C Clarke, probably the greatest science fiction writer (well, one of the greatest with Isaac Asimov) and visionary of the 20th century suggested that very thing in 2011 - the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the sequel, the alien monolith appears in Jupiter's Giant Red Spot and causes Jupiter to ignite into a star, thus becoming 'Lucifer' the source of energy which helps thaw Europa's oceans (one of Jupiter's moons) and create a spurt in the evolution of life there. Sadly, however, this is all fiction. Even where planets much larger than Jupiter have been discovered in orbit round other stars, these too have been simply too small to become suns in their own right. So to call Saturn a 'failed' star implies that it could have possiblybecome a star but somehow failed to achiieve this. In the same way, I have 'failed' to become a mother. But as I am male, then I could not possibly have 'failed' in this task (I am a father though - twice over!). So, as Saturn could never be a star to begin with, in that sense, it could not have failed.
Johnny Jupiter - 1953 How to Become a Movie Star 2-7 was released on: USA: 17 October 1953