Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different
look. By determining the properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures at
the millions of atmospheres of pressure present in the interior of
Saturn and Jupiter, physicists at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have
determined the temperature at a given pressure when helium becomes
insoluble in dense metallic hydrogen.
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