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[JCC87] IRAS 2A

NGC 1333-IRAS2A, also written IRAS 2A, is a young, deeply embedded Class 0 protostar in the NGC 1333 region of the Perseus molecular cloud, about 300 parsecs away.

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[JCC87] IRAS 4

[JCC87] IRAS 4 is a multiple system of Class 0 protostars in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in Perseus, discovered by the IRAS satellite in 1987.

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[JCC87] IRAS 4A

[JCC87] IRAS 4A, also written NGC 1333 IRAS 4A, is a binary of two Class 0 protostars in the NGC 1333 star-forming region of the Perseus molecular cloud.

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[JCC87] IRAS 4B

NGC 1333-IRAS 4B, or [JCC87] IRAS 4B, is a Class 0 protostar about 1,000 light-years away in NGC 1333, Perseus, where Spitzer detected water vapor in 2007.

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& Juliet

& Juliet is a jukebox musical comedy with Max Martin pop hits and a book by David West Read, asking what if Juliet survived Romeo. Premiered Manchester 2019, West End Shaftesbury Theatre November 2019, Broadway 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, German premiere Hamburg 2024, three Olivier Awards.

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J

J (j), tenth letter of the Latin alphabet and the last added; began as a swash of I, distinguished by Trissino in 1524; English /dʒ/, German /j/, Spanish /x/; Unicode U+004A.

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J (programming language)

J is a high-level array programming language designed by Ken Iverson and Roger Hui as a dialect of APL, replacing APL's special symbols with ordinary ASCII characters.

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J Baby

J Baby (ஜே பேபி) is a 2024 Tamil drama directed by Suresh Mari, starring Urvashi, Dinesh, and Lollu Sabha Maaran. Based on true events, it follows estranged sons traveling to Kolkata to retrieve their mother, who has dementia and bipolar disorder.

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J Balvin

J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvín), born 1985 in Medellín, Colombia, is a reggaeton singer behind Ginza and Mi Gente, albums Vibras and Colores, and Latin music's global crossover.

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J Batt

J Batt, born Jason Michael Batt, is an American college athletics director who became Kentucky's athletics director and CEO of Champions Blue LLC in 2026.

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J comp neurol

J comp neurol abbreviates The Journal of Comparative Neurology (JCN), the oldest continually published basic neuroscience journal, founded 1891 by the Herrick brothers; Wiley-published systems neuroscience, print ISSN 0021-9967, edited by Suzana Herculano-Houzel.

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J Dilla

J Dilla (James Dewitt Yancey, aka Jay Dee, 1974–2006) was a Detroit hip-hop producer, rapper, and DJ of Slum Village and The Ummah, known for the 'Dilla Time' MPC rhythm style, Donuts, and lasting influence on hip-hop and neo-soul.

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J E Lennard-Jones

J E Lennard-Jones, born John Edward Lennard-Jones (1927–2019), was a British gastroenterologist and professor at St Mark's Hospital, London, known for research on inflammatory bowel disease and nutritional support.

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J exp med

J Exp Med (Journal of Experimental Medicine) is a monthly peer-reviewed journal founded in 1896 by William Welch, published by Rockefeller University Press, covering immunology, cancer biology, and disease pathogenesis.

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J Harlen Bretz

J Harlen Bretz (1882–1981) was an American geologist who showed in the 1920s that the Channeled Scabland of eastern Washington was carved by cataclysmic floods.

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J Hus

J Hus (Momodou Jallow, born 1996) is a Stratford, east London rapper of Gambian heritage who pioneered Afroswing, fusing UK rap, grime, Afrobeats and dancehall; albums Common Sense (2017), Big Conspiracy (2020, UK No 1) and Beautiful and Brutal Yard (2023).

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J Martin

J Martin, born Martín Espinal in Queens, New York, is a bachata singer of Dominican heritage known for blending bachata with R&B and pop in a style he calls "Bachata Pop".

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J Mascis

J Mascis (Joseph Mascis, born 1965, Amherst, Massachusetts) is the guitarist, singer, and songwriter of Dinosaur Jr., formerly of Deep Wound, also drummer in Witch and solo artist on Sub Pop albums.

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J Paul Taylor

J Paul Taylor is an American physician-scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for connecting stress granules, phase separation, and RNA metabolism to ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

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J Pedersen-Bjergaard

Jens Pedersen-Bjergaard (1932–2021) was a Danish hematologist at the Finsen Institute and Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen who defined the risk and cytogenetics of leukemia caused by cancer chemotherapy.

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J Strother Moore

J Strother Moore is an American computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, co-creator of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm and the ACL2 theorem prover.

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J Trix

J Trix, also known as Jaitay Bhardwaj, is a rapper and songwriter from Kolkata, India, active since 2017 and known for his hard-hitting, bar-heavy 'Choppa' flow.

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J W ten Cate

Jan Wouter ten Cate (1939–2020) was a Dutch physician at the University of Amsterdam who co-authored the 1994 Lancet report identifying the Factor V Leiden mutation.

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J Walk جي ووك

J Walk (جي ووك) is a commercial complex in Al-Jamawat Park, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, with two floors, 9 rental areas, a dancing fountain, and 25,000 m² of green space; distinct from Jeddah's City Walk.

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J-1 visa

J-1 visa: United States nonimmigrant exchange visitor visa (BridgeUSA, Fulbright-Hays Act 1961) for 15 categories including au pair, intern, professor, and physician; about 300,000 participants yearly, DS-2019 sponsor-issued, with a possible 212(e) two-year home-residency rule.

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J-111

J-111 (CVCL_2965, JCRB0073) is a human cell line established in 1955 as acute monocytic leukemia but shown to be a HeLa derivative (ICLAC-00009, HPV18-positive); it was flown on the ISS to study microgravity effects on monocyte motility.

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J-2 (rocket engine)

The J-2 was a large liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne, powering the upper stages of NASA's Saturn IB and Saturn V from 1968 to 1973.

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J-Ax

J-Ax, stage name of Alessandro Aleotti, is an Italian rapper and singer born in Milan in 1972 who fronted Articolo 31 before a solo career.

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J-B Weld

J-B Weld is an American brand of two-part epoxy adhesives, best known for its steel-reinforced "cold weld" epoxy marketed as an alternative to torch welding.

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J-Boog

J-Boog names two American artists: Jerry Fealofani Afemata, a Samoan-American reggae singer from Compton based in Hawaii (Backyard Boogie, Wash House Ting), and Jarell Houston, born 1985, of the R&B group B2K.