What it’s like to stand here
TIC 9344899 b
weight
73.54 g
sun
13.0× wider
sky
warm white

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

TIC 9344899 b

TIC 9344899 b is a confirmed gas-giant exoplanet 1,736 ly from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, discovered in 2026 by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Transit: spotted by the tiny, repeating dip in its star’s light each time the planet crosses in front of it.

TIC 9344899
host star
9.16 R⊕
radius
6,170 M⊕
mass · measured
8.6 days
orbital period
650°C (1202°F)
avg temp
Human scale

TIC 9344899 b is a giant ball of gas with no solid surface to stand on; you would simply sink into ever-thicker cloud. Its yellow, Sun-like star looks 13.0× wider than ours, bathing the cloud tops in warm white light. A year passes in just 8.6 days, and at an estimated 650°C (1202°F) it is furnace-hot.

73.54 g
surface gravity (no solid surface · measured mass)
8.6 days
one year, in Earth time
13.0× wider
how big its sun looks vs ours
warm white
midday sky tint
0.0×
how high you could jump vs Earth
likely
likely tidally locked: probably eternal day on one side, night on the other
Calculate your exact weight on TIC 9344899 b
Earth Similarity Index0.10#5,015 of 5,771 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 73.5 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 2,161 metres per second, 6.4 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 ≈ 2161 m/s · 6.35× 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
  • !Furnace-hot at around 650°C (1202°F), with no liquid water and no shade anywhere.
  • !There is nowhere to land: no ground, no deck, only cloud that thickens into crushing pressure.
  • !Its star delivers about 150 times the sunlight Earth gets, a blinding, sterilizing glare.
  • !Earth-similarity index 0.10: this world has almost nothing in common with our own.

A playful read of TIC 9344899 b’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.

How long to get there · 1,736 ly away
Jet airliner
2.1 billion years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Parker Solar Probethe fastest craft ever built
2.7 million years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Light speed
1,736 years
dies en route1000-yr cryo: fails
Warp 10
2 years
arrives, just older
Folding spacetimeinstant, plus 1 hr of paperwork
1 hour
arrives thriving
Size vs Earth
EarthTIC 9344899 b is 9.2× 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
MID-SIZE TELESCOPE NEEDED
Host-star brightnessmag 13.3
ConstellationEridanus
To see the host star8-10" (200-250 mm) telescope
Gear bridge

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Common questions

What is the gravity on TIC 9344899 b?

TIC 9344899 b is a gas giant with no solid surface to stand on. At its cloud tops, gravity pulls about 74 times as hard as Earth's.

How far is TIC 9344899 b from Earth?

TIC 9344899 b lies about 1,736 light-years from Earth.

How long would it take to get to TIC 9344899 b?

At the speed of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest craft ever built, the journey would take about 2.7 million years.

How hot is TIC 9344899 b?

TIC 9344899 b's equilibrium temperature, the balance it reaches from its star's light alone before any greenhouse warming, is about 650°C (1202°F).

How long is a year on TIC 9344899 b?

TIC 9344899 b completes one orbit of its star in 8.6 days.

Illustration generated from TIC 9344899 b's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.