- weight
- 6.30 g
- sun
- 0.00× as wide
- sky
- deep orange
Illustration computed from this world’s measured and derived values, not a photograph.
KOINTREAU-3 b
KOINTREAU-3 b is a confirmed gas-giant exoplanet 458 ly from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, discovered in 2026 by W. M. Keck Observatory.
Imaging: photographed directly, as a faint point of light beside its star.
KOINTREAU-3 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 0.00× as wide as ours, bathing the cloud tops in deep orange light. At an estimated -264°C (-444°F) it is colder than almost anywhere in the solar system.
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
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 6.3 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.
- !Earth-similarity index 0.01: this world has almost nothing in common with our own.
A playful read of KOINTREAU-3 b’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.
How long to get there · 458 ly away
No other confirmed planets here yet. New ones auto-appear as telescopes report.
Zoom out: star → system → (soon) galaxy arm, host black hole, and a real image of the host galaxy.
What is the gravity on KOINTREAU-3 b?
KOINTREAU-3 b is a gas giant with no solid surface to stand on. At its cloud tops, gravity pulls about 6.3 times as hard as Earth's.
How far is KOINTREAU-3 b from Earth?
KOINTREAU-3 b lies about 458 light-years from Earth.
How long would it take to get to KOINTREAU-3 b?
At the speed of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest craft ever built, the journey would take about 715,010 years.
How hot is KOINTREAU-3 b?
KOINTREAU-3 b's equilibrium temperature, the balance it reaches from its star's light alone before any greenhouse warming, is about -264°C (-444°F).
Illustration generated from KOINTREAU-3 b's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.