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Jeans instability

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

en-GB/ˈd͡ʒiːnz ˌɪnstəˈbɪlɪtɪ/
en-US/d͡ʒins ˌɪnstəˈbɪlɪti/

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physical phenomenon