Laser experiments mimic cosmic explosions and planetary cores
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 04:01
in Astronomy & Space
Researchers are finding ways to understand some of the mysteries of space without leaving earth. Using high-intensity lasers focused on targets smaller than a pencil's eraser, they conducted experiments to create colliding jets of plasma knotted by plasma filaments and self-generated magnetic fields, reaching pressures a billion times higher than seen on earth.