What it’s like to stand here
HD 86065 b
weight
18.41 g
sun
0.05× as wide
sky
amber-orange

Illustration computed from this world’s measured and derived values, not a photograph.

HD 86065 b

HD 86065 b is a confirmed gas-giant exoplanet 132 ly from Earth in the constellation Hydra, discovered in 2022 by Multiple Observatories.

Radial Velocity: spotted by the gravitational wobble the planet tugs in its star.

HD 86065
host star
12.50 R⊕
radius
2,877 M⊕
mass · measured
70.6 years
orbital period
-221°C (-365°F)
avg temp
Human scale

HD 86065 b is a giant ball of gas with no solid surface to stand on; you would simply sink into ever-thicker cloud. Its orange dwarf looks 0.05× as wide as ours, bathing the cloud tops in amber-orange light. A year here lasts 70.6 Earth years, and at an estimated -221°C (-365°F) it is colder than almost anywhere in the solar system.

18.41 g
surface gravity (no solid surface · measured mass)
70.6 years
one year, in Earth time
0.05× as wide
how big its sun looks vs ours
amber-orange
midday sky tint
0.1×
how high you could jump vs Earth
normal
day/night cycle (not tidally locked)
Calculate your exact weight on HD 86065 b
Earth Similarity Index0.11#4,952 of 5,788 ranked worlds

How closely this world matches Earth in size and warmth, from 0 to 1 (Earth = 1.0). Computed by gravityfinder. See every world ranked →

What these mean: surface gravity · tidal locking · equilibrium temperature · Earth similarity

If your children grew up herea playful thought experiment
NO GROUND: A DRIFTER, NOT A WALKER

There is no ground here to grow up on, only bottomless sky. A child could never stand, walk, or even fall to a surface, because there isn't one. Under 18.4 times Earth's gravity and pressure that only climbs the deeper you go, anything built for this world would not look human at all: picture something closer to a deep-sea creature than a person, broad and buoyant, drifting through the cloud decks with no need for legs and no floor to land on.

Body plan
Floating, not upright
With no surface and no fixed up or down, a skeleton built for standing would be useless; a drifting, gas-filled body would not.
Build
Broad and pressure-hardened
Pressure rises without limit toward the interior, so anything alive would have to be built like a deep-sea animal, not a land one.

A playful thought experiment from this world’s gravity, not a prediction about any real person. No human has ever grown up off Earth, so no one truly knows; the direction (taller in low gravity, shorter and stockier in high) follows how growing bodies respond to weight.

Hear how a voice sounds herea computed acoustic demo

Your voice would sound a thin, helium-fast squeak.

There is no surface to stand on; this is the sound at the cloud tops, where the air is mostly hydrogen and helium, the lightest gases there are. Sound races through them at about 516 metres per second, 1.5 times its Earth speed, flipping a voice into a thin, cartoon-helium squeak. The temperature behind that number is this world's computed equilibrium temperature; its real atmosphere is unknown.

sound speed ≈ 516 m/s · 1.52× Earth

A real voice sample, pitch-shifted (tempo held constant) to suggest the acoustics: a playful approximation, not a precise simulation. Voice: Lingua Libre / Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The journey
Cosmic travel advisory
☆☆☆☆
Do not travel
  • !Cryogenic at roughly -221°C (-365°F), cold enough to freeze most gases solid.
  • !There is nowhere to land: no ground, no deck, only cloud that thickens into crushing pressure.
  • !Earth-similarity index 0.11: this world has almost nothing in common with our own.

A playful read of HD 86065 b’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.

How long to get there · 132 ly away
Jet airliner
158 million years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Parker Solar Probethe fastest craft ever built
205,333 years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Light speed
132 years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: survives
Warp 10
48 days
arrives thriving
Folding spacetimeinstant, plus 1 hr of paperwork
1 hour
arrives thriving
Size vs Earth
EarthHD 86065 b is 13× the width of Earth
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Zoom out: star → system → (soon) galaxy arm, host black hole, and a real image of the host galaxy.

Can you see it tonight? · observe
BINOCULARS NEEDED
Host-star brightnessmag 9.4
ConstellationHydra
To see the host star50 mm binoculars
Gear bridge

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Common questions

What is the gravity on HD 86065 b?

HD 86065 b is a gas giant with no solid surface to stand on. At its cloud tops, gravity pulls about 18 times as hard as Earth's.

How far is HD 86065 b from Earth?

HD 86065 b lies about 132 light-years from Earth.

How long would it take to get to HD 86065 b?

At the speed of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest craft ever built, the journey would take about 205,333 years.

How hot is HD 86065 b?

HD 86065 b's equilibrium temperature, the balance it reaches from its star's light alone before any greenhouse warming, is about -221°C (-365°F).

How long is a year on HD 86065 b?

HD 86065 b completes one orbit of its star in 70.6 years.

Illustration generated from HD 86065 b's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.