solar mass
Americannoun
noun
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For the three stars with detected astrospheres, named 70 Ophiuchi, epsilon Eridani, and 61 Cygni, the researchers estimated their mass loss rates to be 66.5±11.1, 15.6±4.4, and 9.6±4.1 times the solar mass loss rate, respectively.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
As the star dies in a supernova, protons and electrons in its core are crushed into a compressed solar mass that combines intense gravity with high-speed rotation and powerful magnetic forces, according to NASA.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2022
One solar mass is equal to the mass of our sun.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2021
A little more than a week earlier, a giant solar mass ejection nearly caused technological calamity on Earth.Credit...
From New York Times ● May 28, 2021
The separation of the planets from their parent solar mass seems to be after all but a temporary separation.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
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