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There is a class of astronomical body known as a brown dwarf. They are typically between 13 and 80 Jupiter masses. This class of bodies essentially straddles the line between a planet and a star, they may be capable of fusing deuterium, and they glow in the red and infrared spectrum. The images of Jupiter in infrared look similar what a brown dwarf would be like if you could see one up close. That said, Jupiter would have had to have sucked up everything in the solar system that isn't the sun, so I am kinda glad that didn't happen.