- weight
- ≥ 8.59 g
- sky
- warm white
Illustration computed from this world’s measured and derived values, not a photograph.
HU Aqr AB c
HU Aqr AB c is a confirmed gas-giant exoplanet 627 ly from Earth in the constellation Aquarius, discovered in 2011 by Yunnan Astronomical Observatory.
Eclipse Timing Variations: inferred from shifts in the timing of its eclipsing stars.
HU Aqr AB c is a giant ball of gas with no solid surface to stand on; you would simply sink into ever-thicker cloud. Bathing the cloud tops in warm white light. A year here lasts 12.0 Earth years.
What these mean: surface gravity · tidal locking · equilibrium temperature
If your children grew up herea playful thought experiment
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 about 8.6 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, and we have no temperature for this world, so its cloud-top acoustics cannot be modelled. In hydrogen-helium air sound races, so a voice would leap to a thin, almost cartoonish squeak.
- !There is nowhere to land: no ground, no deck, only cloud that thickens into crushing pressure.
A playful read of HU Aqr AB c’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.
How long to get there · 627 ly away
Zoom out: star → system → (soon) galaxy arm, host black hole, and a real image of the host galaxy.
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What is the gravity on HU Aqr AB c?
HU Aqr AB c is a gas giant with no solid surface to stand on. At its cloud tops, gravity pulls at least 8.6 times as hard as Earth's.
How far is HU Aqr AB c from Earth?
HU Aqr AB c lies about 627 light-years from Earth.
How long would it take to get to HU Aqr AB c?
At the speed of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest craft ever built, the journey would take about 977,665 years.
How long is a year on HU Aqr AB c?
HU Aqr AB c completes one orbit of its star in 12.0 years.
Illustration generated from HU Aqr AB c's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.