How does a jQuery instance appear as an array when called in console.log?

Question

When entered into a JavaScript console, a jQuery object appears as an array. However, it\'s still an instance of the jQuery object.

var j = jQuery();
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Answer 1

It returns an empty array, because it did nothing - array of elements affected.

Proper way to inspect would be

console.log(jQuery);

if you would do

console.log(jQuery('div'));

you will see that it returns array of elements.