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Composite image of a white dwarf star inside a NIF hohlraum. A white dwarf with the mass of the sun would be about the size of planet Earth, making it…

Composite image of a white dwarf star inside a NIF hohlraum. A white dwarf with the mass of the sun would be about the size of planet Earth, making it one of densest objects in space after neutron stars and black holes. Credit: Mark Meamber and Clayton Dahlen/LLNL.
Using the power of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world’s highest-energy laser system, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and an international team of collaborators have developed an experimental …
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