Illustration computed from this world’s measured and derived values, not a photograph.
Luhman 16 b
Luhman 16 b is a confirmed gas-giant exoplanet in the constellation Vela, discovered in 2017 by Multiple Observatories.
Imaging: photographed directly, as a faint point of light beside its star.
Luhman 16 b is a giant ball of gas with no solid surface to stand on; you would simply sink into ever-thicker cloud. A year here lasts 26.5 Earth years.
Catalog values (NASA Exoplanet Archive): mass 9,344 M⊕, radius 11.90 R⊕. Its catalog mass and radius imply a density of 30.6 g/cm³, denser than compressed iron, so they cannot both be right, and gravityfinder does not use Luhman 16 b in gravity rankings or weight calculations.
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 crushing 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 demoEXPERIMENTAL · just for fun
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 Luhman 16 b’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.
How long to get there · distance unknown awayCALCULATED
Distance unknown for this world.
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.
How long is a year on Luhman 16 b?
Luhman 16 b completes one orbit of its star in 26.5 years.
Illustration generated from Luhman 16 b's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.