How much does Vega weigh?
4.28 × 10³⁰ kgWhich one: 2.15 Suns
Vega has a mass of about 4.28 × 10³⁰ kg.
Planets, moons and spacecraft, from NASA and other space agencies.
How heavy is that?
- Vega weighs about as much as 2.2 Suns.
- Vega weighs about as much as 720,000 Earths.
- Vega weighs about as much as 58 million Moons.
About the same weight
- Titanic 53,200 tonnes
- Eiffel Tower 10,100 tonnes
- Saturn V rocket 2,800 tonnes
- International Space Station 420 tonnes
More space
- Proxima Centauri 2.43 × 10²⁹ kg
- Sun 1.99 × 10³⁰ kg
- Sirius 4.10 × 10³⁰ kg
- Milky Way black hole 8.55 × 10³⁶ kg
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