What would it take to turn Jupiter into a star? Science, of course! Kyle breaks down the process of stellification in this week's episode of Because Science!

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Learn More:
Stellifying Jupiter: A first step to terraforming the Galilean satellites: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989JBI...
The Eddington limit: http://www-ppl.s.chiba-u.jp/lecture/r...
High-energy astrophysics: http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~ga...
What would happen if Jupiter was a star? https://www.askamathematician.com/201...
Black hole accretion: https://www.astro.umd.edu/~richard/AS...
Eddington luminosity: http://homepage.physics.uiowa.edu/~pk...
Accretion disk physics: http://www.einstein-online.info/spotl...