No Jupiter does not have enough mass to trigger nuclear fusion. It needs enoufgh mass to be able to fuse hydrogen atoms. A nuclear explosion would have not effect on jupiter.Is it possible to trigger new clear reaction on Jupiter and make it become a star?
I would like to see what would happen if we were to collide all of the gas giants in our solar system and see what happens. Well computer simulations.
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No need to, since astronomers have discovered over 200 exoplanets, or extra solar planets outside of our solar system, many of them are planets which are ';hot Jupiters';. These planets orbit so close to their parent stars that their upper atmospheres are heated to 10,000 K by extreme-UV, or EUV, radiation.
You're better off installing or jump starting the defunct Dynamos in the 160+ moons in our solar system for humankind.
Jupiter would need 80 times more mass to become a self-sustaining star. It's not a question of fusion, it's the amount of gas that Jupiter is able to burn, which is not enough. The gas is there, there just isn't enough of it.
No, the mass and therefore gravity is too low to compress the hydrogen in the core enough to attain the pressures and temperatures needed to sustain nuclear fusion. Would be like throwing a match on a wet newspaper. Fizzle.
Probably not. Although Jupiter is two and a half times larger than all the other planets put togeather it's still small compared to the size of our Sun and it lacks the mass to turn into a star.
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Jupiter has insufficient mass for gravity to crush its core into the pressure and temperature conditions required to initiate nuclear fusion. At best Jupiter could be described as a brown dwarf star!
no but if we could produce and drop a micro black hole into it it might... but it would be very short lived.. maybe only a few million years
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