Stevehw33 said, "<i>No, jupiter could not ever become a star. The amount of matter it would have to absorb from the solar system would be many 100's of times of the current masses of all the other bodies orbitting the sun.</i>"<br /><br />I disagree wholeheartedly as usual: Our solar system will likely look like one pulsar (remnants of are current star), and one star (which used to be Jupiter). I can see plasma planets existing, but no traditional planets that we are used to describing. A plasma planet would be in the order of ball lightning but much more massive. Anyway, this binary system, if that is the right terminology, will mimic what we see in the universe today. The Pulsar will feed from the parent star, and then go supernova on a regular basis. <br /><br />"<i>To even reach dwarf star status, Jove would have to increase in mass by about 20 fold, and then it would not even be classified as a cool red dwarf, either. </i>"<br /><br />Jupiter will increase in mass until it swallows whole all of which we call home, including, but not limited to our Sun. Jupiter will likely swallow whole its own moons in a massive display of power that from Jupiter's perspective will look like and insignificant spec of nothing. Jupiter is a hungry monster that would like nothing more than to eat us, and time, I am sorry to say, is on Jupiter's side.<br /><br />"<i>Jupiter is highly unlikely ever to be a star, under any concievable circumstances. If you ahd ANY fundamental idea of how much mass, and how much hydrogen would be needed to make a star, even a red dwarf, you'd have dismissed such statements before they were even written.</i>"<br /><br />Any numbers you have on mass relative to stars, dwarfs, holes, etc, is either hypothetical and/or theoretical. Furthermore, since you lack an innovative mind, you are extremely likely locked into the majority groupthink as usual, when, in fact, that mentality does not guarantee success. In fact, the statistical probability of your success in this