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		euroderf 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Ju... OT: So if Jupiter is something of a "failed star", how much bigger would it have to be to be a successful star, and what would be the effect (if any) on other planets' orbits, and would it boil away a lot of Saturn ?

mritterhoff 4 months ago [–]

Wikipedia says it would need to be 75x more massive in order to start fusing hydrogen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter#Size_and_mass

euroderf 4 months ago | [–]

I wonder then how this idea of "failed star" got um started.

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