stellify
To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such
transitive
In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.
To turn into a star.
transitive
An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core.
Where it comes from
From Middle English stellifien (“to make into a star; glorify, deify”), from Middle French stellifier, from Medieval Latin stellificāre, itself from Latin stella (“star”) + faciō (“make, do”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry stellify (CC BY-SA 4.0).