(random question) What would happen if a gas giant fell into a star? - General

keeping the title quick, sweet and to the point what would happen if a gas giant (lets say Jupiter) orbited into or close to a star in the millions of years it would take for something like this to happen what would be the actual outcome of such an event? would the sun with it's heat somehow ignite the gases and cause it to burn away? would it engulf it and make the sun a bit bigger? would this effect any other planets i really don't know what would happen so i ask you facepunch what would/do you think. would happen? and if this is the wrong section mods, could you move it?

it would implode and create fast threads

Stars are typically thousands of times bigger than gas giants, so it would probably either burn away before touching the photosphere or be absorbed by the sun completely.

I'm no rocket scientist, but I think it would depend on the size/mass of the gas giant as well as on the size/mass of the star, how hot it burns and the composition of both objects. So yeah, not knowing those factors it could engulf it, it could ignite the gases and send them "flying" away like a huge flame, it could burn it on approach, etc.

As with a lot of people on this forum, I have no idea but I'll guess anyway. My guess is that the gravitational pull of the star would rip it apart before it got anywhere near it. The blobby ribbon of gas would probably eventually end up in the star. How would it burn away? Into what? Jupiter is mostly hydrogen, there wouldn't be enough of anything for the hydrogen to react with to burn. Unless it got hot enough to start fusing into helium, but my guess is that it would have been absorbed before then. No idea really

big asplosion and shit [img]http://www.rayzell.com/explosion6 big final.jpg[/img]

It would explode and blow the sun into pieces. The sun pieces would then fly everywhere and burn down the universe. It would suck.

[QUOTE=Bobie;30965115]it would implode and create fast threads[/QUOTE] I just knew someone would say this first

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It would be absorbed by the Sun/Star before burning. It would be both violent and beautiful, watching it tear apart from the gravity difference.

Wouldn't the gas be blown away from the solar wind? That's why gas giants only exist in the farther part of our solar system. Whatever is left would plow into the star, and add to it's core.

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[QUOTE=thatguy56;30965537]It would explode and blow the sun into pieces. The sun pieces would then fly everywhere and burn down the universe. It would suck.[/QUOTE] Someone make "Ooh mr. star" based on this, the last frame being "It sucked" ("Only losers self-rate"? That's why I tried to rate myself dumb, I think. That feature was useful for creating the bandwagon effect of dumbing yourself)

every planet in our solar circle would be fucked lol; let alone jupiter

It's a gas giant, It'll expand, because the gasses inside of the gas giant, will expand, probably right before impact, the gasses will turn into plasma, due to the intense heat of the sun (depending on what sun) The gas giant will most likely be absorbed, after that.

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Pretty much fuck all, it'd get absorbed into the star. Although it might get torn to bits and start evaporating on the way down.

It would smell.