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Peering into giant planets from in and out of this world
Peering into giant planets from in and out of this world The interior of the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The object entering from the left is the target positioner, on which a millimeter-scale target is mounted. Researchers recently used NIF to study the interior state of giant planets. Damien Jemison / LLNL