Jeans instability

mechanism which causes the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent star formation
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Jeans instability

Summary

Jeans instability ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Jeans instability is credited with the discovery of James Hopwood Jeans[2].
  • James Hopwood Jeans is named after Jeans instability[3].
  • Jeans instability's subclass of is recorded as physical phenomenon[4].
  • Jeans instability's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1902-00-00T00:00:00Z[5].
  • Jeans instability's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ckw_2[6].
  • Jeans instability's different from is recorded as gravitational instability[7].
  • Jeans instability's different from is recorded as Jeans mass[8].
  • Jeans instability's Quora topic ID is recorded as Jeans-Instability[9].
  • Jeans instability's World of Physics ID is recorded as JeansInstability[10].
  • Jeans instability's schematic is recorded as Jeans hc2.png[11].
  • Jeans instability's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779111416[12].
  • Jeans instability's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 146971[13].
  • Jeans instability's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as gravitatsionnaia-neustoichivost-469ddc[14].

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Works and Contributions

Jeans instability is credited with the discovery of James Hopwood Jeans[2].

Why It Matters

Jeans instability ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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