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EarthSolar t1_jda578n wrote

It’s also really, really young, at 140 million years according to Wikipedia. Jovian worlds and brown dwarfs form hot, and at young age they can be as hot as the coolest stars at ~2000-3000 Kelvins. They cool over time, but the rate is slowed from what you’d normally expect due to gravitational contraction converting planet mass’ gravitational potential energy into thermal energy as the planet shrinks down.

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