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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for solar mass