Description: A solar mass is a unit of mass equal to the mass of the Sun: about 1.989 x 10³⁰ kilograms or 333,000 times the mass of Earth. Solar mass is commonly used to measure and compare brown dwarfs, stars, clusters, and galaxies.

Related Terms:

• Mass
• Sun

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