how does jupiter create moons? or where are websites that you can find it?

Answer 1

Jupiter does not create moons. It does not have any more moons now than it did when Galileo first looked at it with his telescope. We are just discovering smaller and smaller ones as our telescopes get better, and especially since we sent space craft there which can see smaller moons than the best telescopes from Earth can see. Those moons were there before; we just didn't notice them.

Answer 2

No planet creates moons. The are created in one of two ways. If a large astronomical body strikes a solid planet, a large chunk of that planet could be "broken off'. This is what astronomers believed happened with our own moon, that it broke off from the Earth when Earth was struck by a large asteroid or other object millions of years ago, perhaps back when the Solar System was first forming.

The other way that planets develop moons is by gravitational attraction. As a large object goes by, it can be attracted by the gravity of a planet. This is particularly true with a large planet like Jupiter. If the object comes close enough, it can actually be drawn right into the planet. This actually happened to Jupiter not long ago, when a fairly good sized object fell into it. This was observable from Earth.

But if the object only comes close enough to be attracted by a planet's gravity, but not close enough to actually fall into it, it can instead simply begin to orbit the planet. If it does this, it becomes what we would call a moon of the planet.

Answer 3

Jupiter doesn't CREATE moons, it captures them. Although there are some space rocks still drifting about, orbiting the sun, most of the large ones formed during the creation of our solar system (4 1/2 billion years ago) have crashed into planets and moons (making the craters we see on Mercury and the Moon. Most of Earth's craters have weathered away over that time.) A few rocks get pulled into planets, but have just the right speed to go into orbit. The bigger planets, with their greater gravities, captured more rocks. So they have more moons.