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Jeans's theorem

Jeans Theorem says that if a group of stars are moving in the same direction and you measure their speeds and distances, then you can predict what their original group was like. It's like if we line up a bunch of people and tell them to move forward, we could look at their heights and how far away they are standing and use that to figure out how tall each person is and how fast they are moving.
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