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The unit of → radio flux density in → radio astronomy, equivalent to 10-26watts per square meter per → hertz.

Named in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union in honor of Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-1950), an American engineer of Czech descent who first identified radio waves from beyond the Solar System.