Comparison to other celestial bodies:
- The Sun is about 109 times the diameter of the Earth and has a mass about 330,000 times that of the Earth.
- The next largest object in our solar system is Jupiter, the largest planet. Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter of the Earth and has a mass about 318 times that of the Earth.
- The other planets in our solar system are significantly smaller than Jupiter. Saturn, the second largest planet, is about 9 times the diameter of the Earth and has a mass about 95 times that of the Earth.
- The dwarf planet Pluto, once considered the ninth planet from the Sun, is about 2,370 kilometers in diameter, which is about 1/5 the diameter of the Earth and has a mass about 1/500 that of the Earth.
