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  2. Sun Fact Sheet - NSSDCA

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    Solar Magnetic Field. Typical magnetic field strengths for various parts of the Sun Polar Field: 1 - 2 Gauss Sunspots: 3000 Gauss Prominences: 10 - 100 Gauss Chromospheric plages: 200 Gauss Bright chromospheric network: 25 Gauss Ephemeral (unipolar) active regions: 20 Gauss.

  3. Solar mass - Wikipedia

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    The solar mass (M ☉) is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately 2 × 10 30 kg. It is approximately equal to the mass of the Sun. It is often used to indicate the masses of other stars, as well as stellar clusters, nebulae, galaxies and black holes. More precisely, the mass of the Sun is

  4. Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.

  5. What is the mass of the sun? | Space

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    The mass of the sun is almost 4.4 × 10 30 lbs (2 x 10 30 kilograms), that is 4.4 followed by 30 zeros, equivalent to about 333,000 Earths. This value is defined as a solar mass and becomes ...

  6. The Sun's Mass - Space Facts

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    The Sun’s mass is 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000 billion kg or 333,060 Earths. This is 99.86% of the total mass of our Solar System, about three quarters of this mass is hydrogen and the rest is mostly helium.

  7. Our Sun: Facts - Science@NASA

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    Our Sun is a medium-sized star with a radius of about 435,000 miles (700,000 kilometers). Many stars are much larger – but the Sun is far more massive than our home planet: it would take more than 330,000 Earths to match the mass of the Sun, and it would take 1.3 million Earths to fill the Sun's volume.

  8. The mass of the Sun, M ☉, is 743 times the total mass of all the planets in the solar system and 330,000 times that of Earth. All the interesting planetary and interplanetary gravitational phenomena are negligible effects in comparison to the force exerted by the Sun.

  9. How big is the sun? | Space

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    The mass of the sun is 1.989 x 10 30 kilograms, about 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. The sun contains 99.8 percent of the mass of the entire solar system, leading astronomers Imke...

  10. Our solar system: The sun information and facts - National...

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    At about 864,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) wide, the sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and it accounts for more than 99.8 percent of the solar system's total mass. If it was a hollow ball,...

  11. The Sun: Facts, size, and fate of Earth’s blazing star

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    The Sun is primarily composed of two elements: hydrogen and helium. Hydrogen makes up about 74 percent of its mass, while helium accounts for some 24 percent.