what would happen if I fly a spaceship to a gas planet and

This is actually how Suns are made; a huge meteor or something makes it through the atmosphere and hits the gas, and then it ignites and condenses into lava.

>>8273665
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute you.

>>8273665
>>8273673
this is wrong

you need to pile on more mass for an object to become a star

>>8273748
>this is wrong

babys first bait

i bet you respond seriously to the sun made if fire vs sun made of ice threads

so what happens if you light up a gas planet? does it explode?

>>8273748
Not true at all. Its only pure luck that neither Jupiter nor Saturn have had their atmospheres ignited yet to start the process to turn them into suns

>>8273644

Nobody is able to answer this simple question? I thought this was the /sci/ board.

>>8273765
what would happen to us if that happened?

>>8273748
You're actually not wrong, if a gas giant gets too much mass it'll just collapse in on itself and become an ice sun, since there's nothing to heat it up it just turns into solid form. It's the same size as a regular lava sun though since ice is the solid form and therefore denser. But in the cases where ignition occurs, a lava sun, aka a "red giant" is formed.

>>8273810
It'd be day all the time then, but luckily Jupiter is too far away for the heat to reach us, and the famous asteroid belt would provide insulation.

>>8273765
you're retarded Jupiter and Saturn arent nearly massive enough to start internal fission

>>8273823
I think you're confused, it's the meteors that aren't massive enough. Suns come in all sizes.

>>8273810
We would have 2 more suns in the solar system. However they wouldnt be very hot, maybe around 1000C, so called "lava suns". Its possible one or both could shed their heat quite quickly and become "ice suns" at around -1000C. Lets hope they dont collide

>>8273644
Depends on how saturated with oxygen the spaceship's air is.

>>8273644
It's pretty much all hydrogen and helium. Meaning the match won't be to catch fire.

Although if one brings oxygen along, one can use said oxygen as 'fuel' for a combustion engine

>>8273895
if the gas of the planet is flamable can I light it all up with a single match?

>>8273918
Yes, but only if the atmosphere contains a mixture of fuel and oxidizer.

This is exceedingly unlikely to happen. Such atmospheres are unlikely, even if they did happen they would have been ignited long ago by lightning.

>>8273918
Yes, it will go up like a torch

the planet would blow up nigga

>>8273823
You mean fusion.

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What if Juno discovers Jupiter's internal dynamics make it more akin to a star than a planet?

They already just discovered the Great Red Spot is the result of local increased heating from beneath Jupiter's clouds.

>>8274204
Then that would be interesting

>>8274210
woah.......

>>8274204
That is highly unlikely. It is very unlikely that jupiter that jupiter is undergoing fusion today, if it was, our neutrino observatories would have detected it.

No what the study showed is that the great red spot heats the atmosphere above it via transfer of acoustic energy from the storm. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/jul/28/great-red-spot-powers-up-the-heat-on-jupiter

>>8274204
Jupiter is no where near massive enough to do any sort of fusion let alone sustained fusion

Brown dwarfs are able to do some forms of fusion, however this in sustained during the Brown Dwarfs life time.
the dividing line between Gas giant planet and brown dwarf is around 13 times the mass of Jupiter at it extends upwards to about 75 times the mass of Jupiter as the upper bound between brown dwarfs and proper stars.

You would have a spaceship that smells like match smoke.

>>8273644
You cant light a match in space there is no oxigen to be burn. Take that.

>>8273762
there is already lightning there.

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Nothing would happen.

As we know fire needs three things:
>Fuel
Plenty of that on a gas planet
>Heat
From the match, so far so good.
>Oxygen
Gas planets are in space. Space has no oxygen (that's why yo can't breaathe in space).

Therefore there would therefore be no fire because it lacks oxygen therefore it lacks the conditions necessary for a fire therefore no fire.

QED

If i lit it with a fuse would it start fusion?

>>8273665
How about ice suns?

>>8274418
>oxigen
there might be oxigen among the gas of that planet

>>8274418
>Gas planets are in space. Space has no oxygen

>>8274843
It would be extremely heatful

>>8275267
For Juno.

>>8274893
A comet is used instead.

I don't understand this thread. I thought /sci/ was intelligent. Am I having a glimpse of the true knowledge of the plebians when it comes to the creation of stars or are there really 20 posters in here all trolling each other?

>>8275311
Yes

>>8275311
No

>>8275303
Seems plausible

>>8275311
Nobody is trolling. People are just funposting. Memes man