Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Generates Incredible Magnetic Waves

Gizmodo ^ | 08/06/2018

[jmacusa]

No. Read the data. Jupiter would have to be much more massive then it is to be a star.

[jmacusa]

I know how it works. The data I read say’s Jupiter would need to much more massive then it is now. I read one estimate that say a million times buts that’s clearly incorrect.

[Fred Hayek]

As in 80 times.

[familyop]

Heh, heh. Yes.

[jmacusa]

Any star can reach incredible magnitude relative to the amount of gas and dust and other cosmic material it accumulates when it forms. Our sun is a rather common, garden variety sized star compared to some true giants like Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion and Deneb in Cygnus.

[going hot]

Really cool in that link where mass of the sun and planets is given in kg.

[SunkenCiv]

Give Archimedes a balance big enough, and he can weigh the world! :^)