Is Jupiter a FAILED Star?!? #shorts

Poor Jupiter, it's often called a failure.- a failed star that is. Was it supposed to be a star? Like our sun? Jupiter is actually bigger than some stars, so why didn't we get a second sun? Jupiter would need to have 75 times more mass than it does now to fuse hydrogen into helium and become a star.

Stars are born when a dense knot of material in an interstellar molecular cloud collapses under its own gravity. Once the sun formed and finished accreting material, there was still a lot of accretion disc left over. Just Not enough left over to form a double star system.

Jupiter did its best to slurp up all the material that was available to it, but then it stopped growing and the hope of becoming a star faded.

Sorry, Jupiter, you're still a very cool planet.

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[ChucksAstrophotography]

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[Danymok]

Either Jupiter could have been a tiny red dwarf or the biggest planet in its planetary system, I think it got the better end of the stick.

[Fiz]

Jupiter's parenta be like:
*WHY AREN'T YOU LIKE THE SUN?! YOU’RE NO SUN OF MINE!*

[sidewinder]

🗣Jupiter’s failures are our continued existence💨

[jeviljuice]

Man, Jupiter takes all the asteroid hits for us like a bro and at the end he gets this.

[Knightlord]

It could have also been a brown dwarf as well which I think is really cool. I’ve always found this topic of Jupiter becoming a star very interesting.

[skylersthelimitxo]

Jupiter is literally the most amazing planet too me and it’s been in our sky every night for months now super close

[thediamondbeast]

If Jupiter had 75 times more mass than would it shine?

And can you see inside the Andromeda Galaxy as it is so close?

[realzachfluke]

One quote that has always stuck with about this very thing came from Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer.
"Jupiter isn't a failed star, it's a REALLY successful planet!"

[rizkybraymango]

Well, now Jupiter and me had something in common, *“a FAILURE”*

[k-isfor-kristina]

It's so pretty though. All the swirls and colours

[crystallineleaf]

it's not a failure, it's the most beautiful planet in the galaxy.

[jamiejudd]

Looking at ancient texts, Jupiter was supposedly at least slightly illuminated during ancient times. I can't recall the exact details found in these texts but I found it very fascinating, nonetheless.

[bluebeastgamer]

Jupiter failed as a star but became the biggest planet in our solar system. He lost the battle but won the war.

[RobertOrgRobert]

Jupiter needs to sort out that huge red spot !

[SimonsAstro]

Fascinating stuff Chuck! You’d have to get more telescopes if we had two sun’s 😀

[RealEntity]

if Jupiter wouldn't have stayed there, we would have a lot of asteroids coming from the belt slingshotted by Mars

[thtnt]

"its often called a failure"
That one got me

[RickyGuterson]

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune’s gravity stopped it dead in its tracks and gave us life.

[TheSilverChains]

No matter they say, we still love & support you Jupie. 😘