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One unit to rule them all

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Initially used to measure the brightness of radio sources, the jansky has spread to other areas of astronomy, as Natasha Hurley-Walker recounts.

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Hurley-Walker, N. One unit to rule them all. Nat. Phys. 17, 868 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01255-7

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