Solar mass

Solar mass
The Sun contains 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System. Bodies less massive than Saturn are not visible at this scale.
General information
Unit system	astronomy
Unit of	mass
Symbol	M☉
In SI base units	1.988416×1030 kg[1]

The solar mass (M_☉) is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately 2×10³⁰ kg (2 nonillion kilograms in US short scale). 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

The solar mass is about 333000 times the mass of Earth (M_E), or 1047 times the mass of Jupiter (M_J).