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I wonder how life would evolve on a planet like that. Could evolution account for things like seasons that last hundreds of thousands of years? Or would entire species rise and fall between each and every ice age?
Did you see the orbit semi major axis? That gas gaint is so far away from the star it's probably orbit even outside host star's heliosphere. For reference, pluto's semi major is 39.48AU, and this coconuts-2b is 7506AU.
So forget anything like receiving enough energy from sun to have any chemical reaction going. It would be too cold for anything organic.(in our standard to even jitter around.)
39AU, that puts it in perspective. I imagine the gas giant generates more heat than it receives from the sun.