What would happen if Jupiter were bigger?

Jupiter would be massive enough to become a red dwarf – a small, cool, hydrogen-burning star. Because Jupiter is four times further away from us than the Sun, 588 million kilometers away, the Earth wouldn’t get much heat from it. By and large, Jupiter turning into a red dwarf wouldn’t change anything for life on Earth.

What if Jupiter was 80 times bigger?

If the enormous planet was about 80 times more massive, it would have actually become a star instead of a planet. Jupiter’s immense volume could hold more than 1,300 Earths. That means that if Jupiter were the size of a basketball, Earth would be the size of a grape.

Can Jupiter get any bigger?

It is estimated that Jupiter’s rate of mass increase from impacts or accretion is up to 8,000 times that of the Earth’s. This slow but constant loss of mass from Jupiter’s atmosphere is actually greater than the gain in mass from collisions so, overall, Jupiter is shrinking not growing in mass.

What would happen if Jupiter’s mass increased by 80 times?

Depending on density of added mass, it could actually contract. Obviously, increased gravity would effect its moons and perturb orbits of nearby planets and asteroids. If Jupiter were to become about 80 times more massive than it is now, it would become a dim red dwarf star.

What would happen if Jupiter was replaced by a star?

Things would get a lot more fun if Jupiter was replaced with a Sun-like star. If our gas giant became 1,000 times more massive, the Solar System would go wild. Asteroids would crash into planets, and planets would change their orbital course. Some of them might end up ejected from the Solar System altogether.

What would happen if 8080 Jupiters were crushed together?

80 Jupiters crushed together would make a star out of the gas giant. But that star would be nothing like the Sun. Even though Jupiter the star would be a lot more massive than Jupiter the gas giant, it would only be about 20\% bigger in diameter.

What would happen to Jupiter if it were to undergo differential rotation?

Despite Jupiter being really much smaller than the Sun, it’s size is still fairly large for differential rotation to do some nasty things. What differential rotation will do to Jupiter, once it submerges from the surface into the Sun, is that its different parts will be pulled along with rotating Sun at different speeds.