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This illustration depicts laboratory experiments designed to simulate the interiors of giant planets. The National Ignition Facility, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, conducts experiments in nuclear weapons, physics, astrophysics, and other fields. Part of the facility was used in the movie "Star Trek Into Darkness." [Damien Jemison/LLNL]

Depiction of National Ignition Facility probing the interior of a giant planet
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