Is Jupiter a failed star?

[bunny]

My friends on Xbox call me a brown dwarf all the time😊

[TysonSPS]

So we're all just leftover stardust.

[MsLemon]

We can appreciate Jupiter as it is without having to remind it of our perceived failures for its life trajectory.

[KennyFromPhilly]

Please, please, please make a full length feature film documentary (or multi-episode series) about our solar system! You are awesomely engaging, highly knowledgeable, and you translate complicated space/scientific issues into language we can all understand! Thank you!

[PukaHeadMan]

And all this time I thought Jupiter was a failure. I’m sorry, Jupiter.

[GSBarlev]

Thanks for this explanation! Jupiter has always been my favorite planet¹, and, especially given his (disputed) role in diverting large comets and other rogue bodies from the inner solar system, I think he'd be quite miffed to be called a "failed" _anything._




¹Sorry, Earth—I appreciate the whole "sustaining life" thing, but the second we get a colony going on Europa, I'm hopping a one-way shuttle.

[davidthompson]

You must be very well educated 👍 Your videos give you away 🤭 Please continue to educate us❤

[adammcinnes]

How do binary and other multi-star systems form? Do separate stars coalesce from the same gas cloud, or do they form then come across each other and get gravitationally bound to one another?

[goodboy]

The Galileo probe was dumped on Jupiter, falling into the planet's core.. I was concerned radioisotope thermoelectric generators on board which utilize Uranium 238 would Jumpstart the star forming process ☹️🤣🤦🏽

[yyyyyk]

But what about all of the binary star systems that we see?
Aren't those formed by an accretion disk where there is enough mass for both an inner star and a smaller companion?

[physics_hacker]

There are brown dwarfs that orbit stars, but the formation process is more like the formation of a binary star system than it would be for high mass planets. Their formation reflects their intermediate mass between star and planet.

[Alejandro.S.Rodriguez]

Under their own pressure ❌ under their own gravity ✅

[Xindependent_]

But it’s made mostly of the same stuff a Star is made of right ?

[freeStinson]

Does that mean the planets are all made of the same stuff?

[FrankX]

Will Jupiter ever compress into a solid planet of the millions or billions of years or will it always remain a gas plant?

[shakesitoff]

We got lucky as most star systems are binary systems.

[tommycoggin]

A wise man once said. Jupiter isn't a failed star,
It's a very successful planet😎

[supertigerlife]

But wait, it is made with gas, and it has the most moons in the solar system

[Sako-_]

You lost me at "It never decided to become a star"

[sxmolin]

I disagree, Jupiter is a failed star, just look at the number of moons it has in orbit…