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Just to add on to this, NASA estimates that the internal core temperature of Jupiter could be as hot as 24,000°K [0]. For reference, the Sun's photosphere has a
by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Just to add on to this, NASA estimates that the internal core temperature of Jupiter could be as hot as 24,000°K [0]. For reference, the Sun's photosphere has a temperature of about 6000°K [1].
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[0]: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-jupiter-58.html https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-...
[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/i-read-that-the-suns-surf/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/i-read-that-the-s...
- hollerith 5y agoFor reference the temperature at the center of the sun is about 15 million °K
- perl4ever 5y ago>the Sun's photosphere has a temperature of about 6000° There was a paper that proposed that Earth's surface was about this hot for a while after the collision that formed the Moon. Even though the heat wasn't coming from nuclear fusion, for a while it was just as hot as a star, so the Moon, which was smaller and cooled faster overall, was remelted in places by "Earthshine" - therefore the discrepancy between the maria on the near side and the far side.