Orders of magnitude[edit]
| Value (Jy) | Source |
|---|---|
| 110000000 | Radio-frequency interference from a GSM telephone transmitting 0.5 W at 1800 MHz at a distance of 1 km (RSSI of −70 dBm)[8] |
| 20000000 | Disturbed Sun at 20 MHz (Karl Guthe Jansky's initial discovery, published in 1933) |
| 4000000 | Sun at 10 GHz |
| 1600000 | Sun at 1.4 GHz |
| 1000000 | Milky Way at 20 MHz |
| 10000 | 1 Solar flux unit |
| 2000 | Milky Way at 10 GHz |
| 1000 | Quiet Sun at 20 MHz |