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There's not really any data other than a rough distance from its star. The atmosphere could be thick enough and with the right combination of greenhouse gases that the temperature at the equator is 23°C year round. We do know that it's only receiving ~30% of the energy from its star as earth does from the sun, which is what they're basing the low temperature estimates on.
The article itself also says -70 which, still very cold, is much better.
-70°C is -94°F
And it's not like once we have the technology needed to travel 146 light years that we couldn't do something insane like deploy mirror-film solar cells or something to capture extra heat in orbit around the planet and warm the entire planet and terraform it for our usage.
Once? I dont think any if that is close or even gauranteed.