What it’s like to stand here
NSVS 14256825 b
sun
0.06× as wide
sky
icy blue-white

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

NSVS 14256825 b

NSVS 14256825 b is a confirmed gas-giant exoplanet 2,677 ly from Earth in the constellation Aquila, discovered in 2019 by Multiple Observatories.

ESI 0.272,677 lyDiscovered in 2019 by Multiple ObservatoriesDisputed detection

Eclipse Timing Variations: inferred from shifts in the timing of its eclipsing stars.

NSVS 14256825 →
host star
12.30 R⊕
radius
4,497 M⊕
mass · minimum (m·sin i)
8.8 years
orbital period
200°C (393°F)
avg temp
Human scale

NSVS 14256825 b is a giant ball of gas with no solid surface to stand on; you would simply sink into ever-thicker cloud. Its blue giant looks 0.06× as wide as ours, bathing the cloud tops in icy blue-white light. A year here lasts 8.8 Earth years, and at an estimated 200°C (393°F) it is blistering.

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your weight, not stated
EXCLUDED
8.8 years
one year, in Earth time
CALCULATED
0.06× as wide
how big its sun looks vs ours
icy blue-white
midday sky tint
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jump, needs gravity
normal
day/night cycle (not tidally locked)

Catalog values (NASA Exoplanet Archive): mass 4,497 M⊕, radius 12.30 R⊕. Its catalog mass and radius imply a density of 13.3 g/cm³, denser than compressed iron, so they cannot both be right, and gravityfinder does not use NSVS 14256825 b in gravity rankings or weight calculations.

Earth Similarity Index0.27CALCULATED#2,951 of 5,873 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 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; 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 1,548 metres per second, 4.5 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. The demo plays the shift capped at 1.8x; the real effect would be even stronger.

sound speed ≈ 1548 m/s · 4.55× 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
  • !Blistering at about 200°C (393°F), far too hot for liquid water on the surface.
  • !There is nowhere to land: no ground, no deck, only cloud that thickens into crushing pressure.

A playful read of NSVS 14256825 b’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.

How long to get there · 2,677 ly awayCALCULATED
Jet airliner
3.2 billion years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Parker Solar Probethe fastest craft ever built
4.2 million years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Light speed
2,677 years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Warp 10
3 years
arrives, just older
Folding spacetimeinstant, plus 1 hr of paperwork
1 hour
arrives thriving
Size vs Earth
EarthNSVS 14256825 b is 12× 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
LARGE TELESCOPE NEEDED
Host-star brightnessmag 13.3
ConstellationAquila →
To see the host star10"+ (250 mm) telescope, dark sky
Gear bridge

Matched telescope & eyepiece recommendations are coming. Any product links will carry a clear affiliate disclosure.

Common questions

How far is NSVS 14256825 b from Earth?

NSVS 14256825 b lies about 2,677 light-years from Earth.

How long would it take to get to NSVS 14256825 b?

At the speed of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest craft ever built, the journey would take about 4.2 million years.

How hot is NSVS 14256825 b?

NSVS 14256825 b's equilibrium temperature, the balance it reaches from its star's light alone before any greenhouse warming, is about 200°C (393°F).

How long is a year on NSVS 14256825 b?

NSVS 14256825 b completes one orbit of its star in 8.8 years.

Illustration generated from NSVS 14256825 b's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.