Princeton Researchers use Lasers to Recreate Conditions Inside Exoplanet Cores (IMAGE)

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Princeton Researchers use Lasers to Recreate Conditions Inside Exoplanet Cores

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Inside the target chamber at the University of Rochester's Omega Facility, a team of researchers including Princeton University's Thomas Duffy and June Wicks use lasers to compress iron-silicon samples to the ultrahigh pressures found in the cores of super-Earths.

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Photo courtesy of Laboratory for Laser Energetics

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