Orders of magnitude (energy)
This list compares various energies in joules, organized by order of magnitude.
1 to 105 J
106 to 1011 J
1012 to 1017 J
1018 to 1023 J
Over 1024 J
| Factor | SI prefix | Value | Item |
| 1024 | yotta- | 2.31×1024J | Total energy of the Sudbury impact event |
| 1024 | yotta- | 2.69×1024J | Rotational energy of Venus, which has a sidereal period of 243 Earth days. The anomalously low value derives its origin from the deceleration of its rotation by atmospheric tides induced by the Sun. |
| 1024 | yotta- | 3.8×1024J | Radiative heat energy released from the Earth's surface each year |
| 1024 | yotta- | 5.5×1024J | Total energy from the Sun that strikes the face of the Earth each year |
| 1025 | 4×1025J | Total energy of the Carrington Event in 1859 | |
| 1026 | >1026J | Estimated energy of early Archean asteroid impacts | |
| 1026 | 3.2×1026J | Bolometric energy of Proxima Centauri's superflare in March 2016. In one year, potentially five similar superflares erupts from the surface of the red dwarf. | |
| 1026 | 3.828×1026J | Total radiative energy output of the Sun per second, as defined by the IAU. | |
| 1027 | ronna- | 1×1027J | Estimated energy released by the impact that created the Caloris basin on Mercury. |
| 1027 | ronna- | 1×1027J | Upper limit of the most energetic solar flares possible |
| 1027 | ronna- | 5.19×1027J | Thermal input necessary to evaporate all surface water on Earth. Note that the evaporated water still remains on Earth, merely in vapor form. |
| 1027 | ronna- | 4.2×1027J | Kinetic energy of a regulation baseball thrown at the speed of the Oh-My-God particle, itself a cosmic ray proton with the kinetic energy of a baseball thrown at 60mph. |
| 1028 | 3.845×1028J | Kinetic energy of the Moon in its orbit around the Earth | |
| 1028 | 7×1028J | Total energy of the stellar superflare from V1355 Orionis | |
| 1029 | 2.1×1029J | Rotational energy of the Earth | |
| 1030 | quetta- | 1.79×1030J | Rough estimate of the gravitational binding energy of Mercury. |
| 1031 | 2×1031J | The Theia Impact, the most energetic event ever in Earth's history | |
| 1031 | 3.3×1031J | Total energy output of the Sun each day | |
| 1032 | 1.71×1032J | Gravitational binding energy of the Earth | |
| 1032 | 3.10×1032J | Yearly energy output of Sirius B, the ultra-dense and Earth-sized white dwarf companion of Sirius, the Dog Star. It has a surface temperature of about 25,200 K. | |
| 1033 | 2.7×1033J | Earth's kinetic energy at perihelion in its orbit around the Sun | |
| 1034 | 1.2×1034J | Total energy output of the Sun each year | |
| 1034 | 4.13×1034J | Rotational energy of Jupiter, calculated using an updated value for the moment of inertia factor of 0.26393 ± 0.00001. | |
| 1035 | 3.5×1035J | The most energetic stellar superflare to date | |
| 1038 | 7.53×1038J | Baryonic mass-energy contained in a volume of one cubic light-year, on average. | |
| 1039 | 2–5×1039 J | Energy of the giant flare released by SGR 1806-20 | |
| 1039 | 6.60×1039 J | Theoretical total mass–energy of the Moon | |
| 1040 | 1.61×1040J | Baryonic mass-energy contained in a volume of one cubic parsec, on average. | |
| 1041 | 2.28×1041J | Gravitational binding energy of the Sun | |
| 1041 | 5.37×1041J | Mass–energy equivalent of the Earth | |
| 1043 | 5×1043J | Total energy of all gamma rays in a typical gamma-ray burst if collimated | |
| 1043 | >1043 J | Total energy in a typical optical transient">Visible spectrum">optical transient | |
| 1044 | ~1044 J | Average value of a Tidal Disruption Event in optical/UV bands | |
| 1044 | ~1044 J | Estimated kinetic energy released by FBOT CSS161010 | |
| 1044 | ~1044J | Total energy released in a typical supernova, sometimes referred to as a foe. | |
| 1044 | 1.23×1044J | Approximate lifetime energy output of the Sun. | |
| 1044 | 1.71×1044J | Mass-energy equivalent of Jupiter, the most massive planet in our Solar System | |
| 1044 | Total energy of a typical gamma-ray burst if collimated | ||
| 1044 | 5.8 × 1044J | Kinetic energy of the star S2 as it made its closest approach to Sagittarius A*, the galactic center SMBH, at 7,650 km/s on May 2018. | |
| 1045 | ~1045 J | Estimated energy released in a hypernova and pair instability supernova | |
| 1045 | 1045 J | Energy released by the energetic supernova, SN 2016aps | |
| 1045 | 1.7-1.9×1045J | Energy released by hypernova ASASSN-15lh | |
| 1045 | 2.3×1045 J | Energy released by the energetic supernova PS1-10adi | |
| 1045 | >1045 J | Estimated energy of a magnetorotational hypernova | |
| 1045 | >1045J | Total energy of hyper-energetic gamma-ray burst if collimated | |
| 1046 | >1046J | Estimated energy in theoretical quark-novae | |
| 1046 | ~1046J | Upper limit of the total energy of a supernova | |
| 1046 | 1.5×1046J | Total energy of the most energetic optical non-quasar transient, AT2021lwx | |
| 1046 | 2.5×1046J | Estimated upper limit of Extreme Nuclear Transients, an extreme version of TDEs discovered in 2025 | |
| 1047 | 1045-47 J | Estimated energy of stellar mass rotational black holes by vacuum polarization in an electromagnetic field | |
| 1047 | 1047 J | Total energy of a very energetic and relativistic jetted Tidal Disruption Event | |
| 1047 | ~1047 J | Upper limit of collimated- corrected total energy of a gamma-ray burst | |
| 1047 | 1.8×1047J | Theoretical total mass–energy of the Sun | |
| 1047 | 5.4×1047J | Mass–energy emitted as gravitational waves during the merger of two black holes, originally about 30 Solar masses each, as observed by LIGO | |
| 1047 | 8.6×1047J | Mass–energy emitted as gravitational waves during the most energetic black hole merger observed until 2020 | |
| 1047 | 8.8×1047J | GRB 080916C – formerly the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded – total/true isotropic energy output estimated at 8.8 × 1047 joules, or 4.9 times the Sun's mass turned to energy | |
| 1048 | 1048 J | Estimated energy of a supermassive Population III star supernova, denominated "General Relativistic Instability Supernova." | |
| 1048 | ~1.2×1048 J | Approximate energy released in the most energetic black hole merging to date, which originated the first intermediate-mass black hole ever detected | |
| 1048 | 1.2–3×1048 J | GRB 221009A – the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded – total/true isotropic energy output estimated at 1.2–3 × 1048 joules | |
| 1050 | ≳1050 J | Upper limit of isotropic energy of Population III stars Gamma-Ray Bursts. | |
| 1053 | >1053 J | Mechanical energy of very energetic so-called "quasar tsunamis" | |
| 1053 | 6×1053J | Total mechanical energy or enthalpy in the powerful AGN outburst in the RBS 797 | |
| 1053 | 7.65×1053J | Mass-energy of Sagittarius A*, Milky Way's central supermassive black hole | |
| 1054 | 3×1054J | Total mechanical energy or enthalpy in the powerful AGN outburst in the Hercules A | |
| 1055 | >1055J | Total mechanical energy or enthalpy in the powerful AGN outburst in the MS 0735.6+7421, Ophiuchus [Supercluster eruption|Ophiucus Supercluster Explosion] and supermassive black holes mergings | |
| 1057 | ~1057 J | Estimated rotational energy of M87 SMBH and total energy of the most luminous quasars over Gyr time-scales | |
| 1057 | ~2×1057 J | Estimated thermal energy of the Bullet Cluster of galaxies | |
| 1057 | 7.3×1057 J | Mass-energy equivalent of the ultramassive black hole TON 618, an extremely luminous quasar / active galactic nucleus. | |
| 1058 | ~1058 J | Estimated total energy of galaxy clusters mergings | |
| 1058 | 4×1058J | Visible mass–energy in our galaxy, the Milky Way | |
| 1059 | 1×1059J | Total mass–energy of our galaxy, the Milky Way, including dark matter and dark energy | |
| 1059 | 1.4×1059J | Mass-energy of the Andromeda galaxy, ~0.8 trillion solar masses. | |
| 1062 | 1–2×1062J | Total mass–energy of the Virgo Supercluster including dark matter, the Supercluster which contains the Milky Way | |
| 1066 | 1.207×1066J | Average mass-energy of ordinary matter contained within one cubic gigaparsec in the observable universe. | |
| 1070 | 1.462×1070J | Rough estimate of total mass–energy of ordinary matter present in the observable universe. | |
| 1071 | 3.177×1071J | Rough estimate of total mass-energy within our observable universe, accounting for all forms of matter and energy. |