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Originally posted by ScriptBall
I wish that was a possibility, but in order for Jupiter to become a star it would have be 80 times its current mass, if jupiter ever becomes a small star, it is likely that the earth will be torn into a billion pieces between the two suns gravitational tug of war.
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You know that not only the sun has gravity?
Anything that is large enough will create its own gravitational pull around it.
The only way that I could see it being torn into peices was if #1) the stars were both the same exact size #2) we were centered exactly between the two.