Fucking shrinkflation
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Jupiter should lay off the soy
I don't see any tiddies 🤔
I thought that gas giants always tended to max out at about the radius of Jupiter no matter their mass?
I thought that was the case too? Any larger and the pressure on their core causes a nuclear reaction, turning them into stars. Obviously I don't have the right info if Jupiter used to be 2.5x larger.
Jupiter would need to be around 80 times more massive to become a star.
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If you follow the radius curve for increasing mass, it tops out just a little after Jupiter (the diamond with the ♃ symbol). But since that happens way earlier than 80x Jupiter mass, there has to be a cause other than fusion, which incidentally causes a sharp increase in radius from outward radiation pressure once it ignites.
All gas giants have some amount of d*generate matter, with more d*generacy as you add mass. Electron d*generate matter has the counterintuitive property that it shrinks as you add mass to it, since more mass frees up new quantum states (energy levels) that electrons can populate within the same volume. In the lead-up to 80 Jupiter masses, you see a shrinking radius as the amount of d*generacy increases within the core.
Now, the above only holds if the planet is cold and isolated from its parent star. It gets more interesting when those assumptions are dropped. Hence the class of exoplanets known as hot Jupiters which have much lower densities (larger radii) than cold gas giants.
edited to fix all the words removed by overeager slur filter. These are scientific terms in astronomy
Shrinkage!
It shrinks?