What is the source of Jupiter's excess energy?
A) Helium rain falling through its interior
B) The decay of radioactive elements in its dense core
C) Nuclear fusion in its hot, sunlike core of hydrogen
D) The slow escape of gravitational energy released during the planet's formation
E) The tidal stresses of the large Galilean moons
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