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The Jeans instability describes
A)   the explosion of a star at the end of its life, the supernova phenomenon.
B)   the overcoming of gas pressure by self-gravity within a cold and dense interstellar cloud to form a star.
C)   the conditions under which sufficient numbers of neutrinos can trigger the collapse of an interstellar cloud.
D)   the expansion of a gas cloud after gravitational contraction because of build-up of great heat within the cloud from gravitational potential energy.
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