solar mass
noun
: the mass of the sun used as a unit for the expression of the masses of other celestial objects and equal to about 2 × 1030 kilograms
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Heating up the surface would increase the amount of solar wind production, which would increase the rate of solar mass loss.
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Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
Even the littlest ones are big enough that researchers measure them in units of solar mass.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
The result, a neutron star, is approximately 1.3 to 2.5 solar masses — one solar mass is the mass of our sun, or about 330,000 Earths — crammed into a sphere measuring just 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter.
—Mindy Weisberger, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2022
And so the missing solar mass worth of energy was radiated out across the universe as gravitational waves.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2017
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Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
Even the littlest ones are big enough that researchers measure them in units of solar mass.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
The result, a neutron star, is approximately 1.3 to 2.5 solar masses — one solar mass is the mass of our sun, or about 330,000 Earths — crammed into a sphere measuring just 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter.
—Mindy Weisberger, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2022
And so the missing solar mass worth of energy was radiated out across the universe as gravitational waves.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2017
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“Solar mass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20mass. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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