Artist impression. No real image of Gliese 436 b exists yet.
exoplanet · 31.9 light years from Earth
Gliese 436 b
A hot Neptune trailing a giant comet-like cloud of hydrogen that escapes from its atmosphere.
- Type
- Exoplanet
- Orbits
- Gliese 436
- Distance
- 31.9 light years
- Diameter
- about 53,200 km (estimated)
- Constellation
- Leo
- Discovered
- 2004
- Rotation
- Tidally locked: one side always faces its star
About Gliese 436 b
- A Neptune-sized world orbiting a red dwarf in Leo.
- The Hubble Space Telescope found a vast hydrogen cloud trailing behind it like a comet's tail.
- It goes round its star in under three days.
Visit Gliese 436 b in VR
In IKAREE, Gliese 436 b is one of 31 destinations modelled in detail. Sit in the captain's chair, give the order and watch it grow on the main viewscreen. Then send a survey probe and ride its camera down, or ask your science officer what the sensors show.
How to get there
- CaptainHelm, set a course for Gliese 436 b. Warp seven. Engage.
- Brooks · HelmCourse laid in for Gliese 436 b. Warp seven. Engaging.
- CaptainScience, full analysis of Gliese 436 b.
- Hart · ScienceRunning it now, Captain.
