The Biggest Planet Was Easy… The Tiniest Star Was INSANE

Original 2D space animation by Orbitimbre. Cosmic challenges, planet stories, and surprising endings. Join the Orbitimbre crew for custom emoji and loyalty badges: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtPoouzahVkQOs2gA206XRw/join A cocky little satellite laps Earth in 90 minutes, so Jupiter, 11 times wider, dares him to lap HIM. But in orbit gravity sets the speed: Jupiter takes about 3 hours, smaller Saturn takes longer, and the giant Sun is even faster than Jupiter. Then a star the size of a city asks for a lap... Science notes: Real: a low orbit around Earth, like the International Space Station's, takes about 90 minutes (NASA). For an orbit skimming a world's surface or cloud tops, the lap time depends on the world's average density, not its size: a bigger world pulls harder, so you go faster. From NASA fact-sheet numbers: Jupiter about 3 hours (about 42 km/s), Saturn about 4 hours (the only planet less dense than water; NASA says it could float in a bathtub big enough), the Sun 2 h 47 min (about 437 km/s), a little faster than Jupiter because it is a little denser. Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth and the Sun about 10 times wider than Jupiter (NASA). A neutron star packs about the mass of the Sun or more into a ball about 20 km across (NASA); a skimming orbit there would go round more than 1,000 times every second (simple estimate, true for typical neutron-star masses and sizes). Exaggerated for fun: "16 hours" is SAT's wrong guess (11 x 90 minutes at Earth-orbit speed); real spacecraft can't skim cloud tops or the Sun's surface (air drag and heat would destroy them), orbiting needs no engine burn, there is no bathtub for Saturn, near a neutron star tides and radiation would tear a satellite apart (and relativity matters), sizes and distances are not to scale, and planets don't talk. Music: BAILA LENTO – smasher & MC DASILVA #shorts #space #jupiter #neutronstar #science