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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Satan" data-source="post: 1742796" data-attributes="member: 23806">Planetary ScienceIf it helps I study planetary science and if there was a hard sci-fi setting then in reality Jupiter would not be able to become a star, it needs 13 times more mass, and even then would become a Brown Dwarf as the Deutrinium inside starts to go through a fusion reaction from core pressure... however, taking that aside there are some other problems, at this time of writing Jupier has 40 satelites including four Galilean satelites, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto (the 4 satellites large enough to be geologically planets in their own right), unfortunately Jupiters gravity is intense enough that each of these moon's are tidally locked with Jupier and so always have one side permanenetly facing jupiter with the other side permanenetly facing away, so, if Jupiter became a star, one side would be permemenetly scorced (as they are far too close anyway) while the other side would be shielded from the heat but have their atmosphere, if any, blown off by the now high powered solar winds of a virtually adjacent star... then their is the radiation, as it stands, Io has over one metric ton of it';s material stripped by Jupiter by Jupiters magnetic field as it passes that close to Jupiter (the tidal gravity of jupiter is what causes it's ridiculous level of volcanic activity) if Jupiter became a star most life would be killed long before reaching the moon's by incredible levels of radiation that no current technology can dampen let alone block and that's not even going on to whether the moon would be habitable (the far side at that since the near side would be hotter than the surface of a Jupiter-star due to corona radiation. Other planets would have a temperature increase but they would not have differentiated orbits as Jupiters mass affects orbital periods and this should not change but the disturbance of nearby smaller satellite to jupiter would cause some of the "smaller" ones to be thrown out from Jupiter through the void of the solar system causing untold damage on any planets hit (small by these standards would be Extinction Level Event asteroids), so, really, you may have issues...</blockquote>

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