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by HappyJoy 894 days ago
The movie Contact makes mention of Jansky - "Reading over a hundred Janskys". Thought it was a made up unit at the time
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Nitpick: as a non-SI unit recognized for use in astronomy[0] "jansky" is always lowercase, not capitalized.

This is true for all SI units. Newton, watt, and joule are all lowercase, unless they appear at the beginning of a sentence or when you're referring to the original scientists.

People often get confused because the abbreviations for those units are capitalized.

[0] https://www.iau.org/publications/proceedings_rules/units/