Solar Vital Statistics: What is the mass of the Sun?

The Sun weighs (!) in at a massive


2 x 1030 kg


It's a quick way of writing a really big number and means put 30 zeros after the first 2 -
so the mass of the Sun is 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kgs!

an incredible 330,000 times the mass of the Earth!

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