Ice Giant Magnetic Field Extreme Activity
Why is this a Ice Giant? Your planet has moderate mass (18.0x Earth) with significant water, carbon, and nitrogen content, characteristic of ice giants. Ice giants like Uranus and Neptune have icy interiors with thick atmospheres of hydrogen and helium, but not enough to be classified as gas giants.
✓ Mass: 18.0x Earth (5-20x range) ✓ Water/Carbon/Nitrogen rich composition
Habitability Score Uninhabitable
Contributing Factors water 15
No solid surface — any water is locked in a supercritical mantle and hot ice, not oceans geology 40
Extreme volcanic activity may be hazardous rotation 100
Optimal rotation period - balanced day/night cycle, moderate weather, and good heat distribution Organic Chemistry 50
Carbon and hydrogen present - organic chemistry possible atmosphere 30
Hydrogen-rich atmosphere typical of gas giants temperature 15
Extremely hot - hostile to known life forms magnetic Field 100
Magnetic field provides radiation protection — but the pulsar's beams bathe this orbit in hard X-rays Physical Properties Mass
18.00x Earth (1.07e+26 kg) Radius
2.62x Earth (16,697 km) This planet: 2.62× Earth radius Earth: 1× (baseline)
Surface Gravity
2.62x Earth (25.7 m/s²) Surface Temperature
528 K (255 °C / 491 °F) Rotation Period
17.0 hours/day (faster than Earth) This planet: 17 h/day Earth: 24 h/day Orbital Environment Star Type
NS-type (Neutron Star) Distance from Star
0.10 AU (15 million km) Time Dilation
Clocks run 6.5 seconds per year slower than deep space — about 9 minutes over a lifetime Atmosphere Hydrogen and helium with water, methane, and ammonia ices
Surface Characteristics No solid surface - a deep volatile envelope over a supercritical water mantle and hot-ice interior Closest Real Exoplanet Orbiting GJ 2056 Yours GJ 2056 b Mass 18.0 × Earth 16.2 × Earth Radius 3.96 × Earth 4.17 × Earth Density (composition) 1.60 g/cm³ 1.23 g/cm³ Temperature 528.2 K 311.0 K Starlight received 1.00 × Earth 1.55 × Earth Star temperature — 4,070 K
Matched on physical properties only — but pulsar planets are real: the first exoplanets ever confirmed (PSR B1257+12, 1992) orbit a neutron star. Discovered 2020 via radial velocity · 93 light-years away Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive Browse all 5,568 real exoplanets Learn more about exoplanets