Discovery Science
Unraveling the properties of fluid metallic hydrogen at the National Ignition Facility could help scientists unlock the mysteries of Jupiter’s formation and internal structure. Credit: Mark Meamber/LLNL Since the beginning of civilization, humans have marveled at the night sky and pondered the vast stretches of the universe. The 17th century invention of telescopes revealed the first details of the Moon and the planets in our solar system. Four hundred years later, space-based observatories such as NASA’s Hubble, Chandra, and James Webb regularly capture amazing vistas of billions of galaxies millions of light years away; while deep-space probes provide up-close data on the surface conditions on nearby planets and their moons. “From nuclear physics to colliding galaxies, the reach of NIF
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