What is at the core of Jupiter?
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the smallest, equivalent just below 320 Earth. The part of the planet we can see - cloud peaks - consists of 90% hydrogen and 10% helium. As a gas giant, Jupiter's composition is more similar to the composition of stars and the universe in general, unlike rocky planets, such as Earth, primarily composed of heavy elements such as oxygen, silicon, nickel and iron.
, which is the smallest planet, Jupiter's interior is highly pressure, so it is very hot. Jovian interior is approximately 71% hydrogen, 24% helium and 5% other elements. The Jupiter core is considered primarily iron, the most difficult element found in significant amounts in the solar system.
If you should travel to the Jupiter core, starting with the upper atmosphere, one of the first observations you could make is the increasing level of helium to depth. About 1,000 km (621 miles), the production of hydrogen of Jupiter's atmosphere is slowly increasingly dense and eventually reaches the liquid phase. Boundary between PLYnut and liquid hydrogen in the Jovian atmosphere is considered gradual.
even deeper liquid hydrogen is sufficiently compressed to take over the conductive properties and enter the phase known as metal hydrogen. The Jupiter core is surrounded by a layer of metal hydrogen that extends outwards to 78% of the planet's radius. On the ground, metal hydrogen was produced only in the laboratory for about a microsecond, at pressures of more than a million atmosphere (> 100 GPA or Gigapascals) and temperatures of thousands of Kelvin. In Jupiter, metal hydrogen is usually in liquid form.
In the transition zone between normal and metal hydrogen, the temperature is considered 10,000 K and the pressure is 200 GPa. Esons E are already more extreme than any that is found in the solar system outside the gas giants and the sun itself. Under the extremely thick layer of metal hydrogen is the core of Jupiter himself, whose properties are not well known. Temperature in the Jupiter coreU is estimated at 36,000 hp and pressure at about 3,000-4,500 GPa. Although it seems to be a lot, it is not close to what it is necessary to achieve star ignition and to become a star. To achieve these conditions, it is estimated that the planet would have to be 75 times more massive than now.